& 43D. Language of works by Gottfried von Strassburg and Walther von der Vogelweide |
middle high |
'Wimbledon' is the All England Lawn Tennis and ____ Club |
CROQUET |
1952 musical rom-com depicting 1920s Hollywood, choreographed by and starring Gene Kelly |
Singin' in the Rain |
1963 Bill Naughton play, also a film starring Michael Caine |
ALFIE |
A legal or parliamentary holiday |
RECESS |
A symptom of rabies |
HYDROPHOBIA |
Alaskan city which gives its name to a variety of spruce |
SITKA |
At various times, a duchy, kingdom and province in what is now northwestern Germany |
WESTPHALIA |
Bearable, in old slang |
tol-lol |
Big top |
Circus tent |
Designer of the Willow Tearooms in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
Dick ____, able seaman in HMS Pinafore |
DEADEYE |
Dungeons or cells with access only via the ceiling |
oubliettes |
Essex town where Courtaulds opened a silk mill |
BRAINTREE |
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, singer and civil rights activist |
Nina Simone |
Exercises designed to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement |
CALLISTHENICS |
Extra turns for weaker players in 49 |
BISQUES |
Fog coming inland from the coast |
Sea fret |
Future seasonal weather — according to Keats, maybe |
Autumn mists |
German-born political theorist Hannah ____ wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism |
ARENDT |
Glamorous star of 1930s films who retired in 1941 and became a recluse |
Greta Garbo |
Greek goddess of peace |
IRENE |
Hampshire location of the former RAF Coastal Command HQ, and the Hovercraft Museum |
Lee-on-the-Solent |
Historic alternative name for Shropshire |
SALOP |
Holst’s tone poem ____ Heath is subtitled 'A Homage to Thomas Hardy' |
EGDON |
Imprisonment for political or military reasons |
INTERNMENT |
In English common law, the parts of a judgement which are not ratio decidendi |
Obiter dicta |
In Zambia, 100 ngwees |
KWACHA |
Insect genus including many agricultural pests |
APHIS |