Informally, a plant of the genus Tropaeolum |
NASTURTIUM |
Island featured in a Guardian supplement on April 1, 1977 |
san Serriffe |
Julie T Wallace starred in the BBC dramatisation of Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a ____ |
she-devil |
Lacking imagination or originality |
PROSAIC |
Large variety of prawn or penguin |
KING |
Leonard Bernstein operetta, based on a novella by Voltaire |
CANDIDE |
Liz ____ finished fourth in Labour’s 2015 leadership election? |
KENDALL |
Lullaby sung in the first scene of Porgy and Bess |
SUMMERTIME |
Mexican folk song, adapted by Ritchie Valens in a 1958 hit |
La Bamba |
Mix socially, possibly with those of other classes |
rub shoulders |
Mrs ____ is the housekeeper at Manderley |
DANVERS |
One Iberian city after which a dessert wine is named |
OPORTO |
One who classifies or defines |
DESIGNATOR |
Plants featured in a BBC Panorama report on April 1, 1957 |
spaghetti trees |
Platinum metal element, discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1804 |
RHODIUM |
Secondary schools in both Kennington and Croydon were founded by Thomas ____, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694-1715 |
TENISON |
Short sleep during a working day |
power nap |
Standard Chinese, or the language group including it |
MANDARIN |
Stanley Holloway played Alfred ____ in the film version of My Fair Lady |
DOOLITTLE |
Steak ____, popular in the mid-20th century, is similar to steak au poivre, but with a flambéed sauce |
DIANE |
The final outcome of an endeavour |
end product |
The great ____ is an amphibian, protected in the UK |
crested newt |
The ideas and attitudes associated with a group of people |
ETHOS |
The language from which English borrowed the words 31A and 43D |
PORTUGUESE |
Thomas ____ married Catherine Parr after Henry VIII died |
SEYMOUR |
To intimidate |
DAUNT |
To make a humiliating retraction |
eat one's words |
Trafalgar, Lepanto or Salamis |
sea battle |
Valuable timber from some trees in the genus Dalbergia |
ROSEWOOD |
____ Scream is a rock group founded in Glasgow in 1982 |
PRIMAL |