'I'll speak to it though hell itself should ____' (Hamlet, on his father's ghost) |
GAPE |
'Where'er I go, they shout 'Hello! ____?'' (Chorus of this music hall song) |
Where Did You Get That Hat |
A clique or coterie |
in-group |
A female servant, or anyone doing menial work |
SKIVVY |
A man with no name but many monuments |
Unknown Soldier |
A plane hired for short flights |
air taxi |
A sheet of material protecting a doorway or window from sun or rain |
AWNING |
A small boat, often with one rower |
SKIFF |
A T-cell or B-cell |
LYMPHOCYTE |
Advice possibly applicable to crossword-solving |
practice makes perfect |
American writer Maya ____'s first autobiographical work was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
ANGELOU |
An archaic name for someone or something excellent |
NONESUCH |
An old name for the northern end of the world |
ultima Thule |
Bertie ___ managed Arsenal's 1971 double-winning team |
MEE |
Bone injury often caused by a significant increase in exercise |
stress fracture |
Chinese classic text based on 64 hexagrams, influential in 1960s counterculture |
I Ching |
Chris ____ won 18 tennis grand-slam singles titles |
EVERT |
City in Uruguay formerly known for meat processing |
Fray Bentos |
City where England lost a 1970 World Cup quarter final |
LEON |
Conservation organisation with an avocet in its emblem |
rspb |
Corrieshalloch Gorge is a box ____ near Ullapool |
CANYON |
Edith Wharton novel, filmed in 1993 |
Ethan Frome |
First person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, in 1966-7 |
Sir Francis Chichester |
In a Sergei Eisenstein film, Alexander ____ defends Novgorod against Teutonic knights |
nevsky |
Informally, fail to make the grade |
not cut it |
Interval between the first two notes of the harmonic series |
OCTAVE |
Jelly-like substance, used as a culture medium |
AGAR |
Keith ____ is the TV alter ego of comedian Leigh Francis |
LEMON |
London’s largest public square |
Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Measure of vehicle weight used in designing new roads |
axle load |