“It’s really important to me not to be known as ____ when I’m 60” (David Schwimmer) |
ROSS |
1992 black comedy film starring Tim Robbins and Greta Scacchi |
The Player |
1996 single by Alanis Morissette |
IRONIC |
A brightly coloured tropical freshwater fish |
TETRA |
A singular mystery |
ARCANUM |
A spit or tombolo |
SANDBANK |
A subservient flatterer |
LICKSPITTLE |
According to 19th-century promotional material, “Le papier qui roule les bonnes cigarettes” |
rizla |
Actress who played Gwenda, wife of the hapless Brian Stimpson, in Clockwise |
Alison Steadman |
Alternative name for the eleventh month of the French Revolutionary calendar |
fervidor |
Archbishop of Canterbury canonised after his murder in 1170 |
Thomas a Becket |
Artificial hatching apparatus |
INCUBATOR |
Artist who painted The Menin Road |
Paul Nash |
Ballet dancer who starred on screen in The Turning Point |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
BBC programme currently hosted by Matt Baker and Alex Jones |
The One Show |
Bone to which the word costal applies |
RIB |
Briefly, the applied science associated with computing |
INFOTECH |
Capital city which became a world heritage site only 31 years after its construction commenced |
BRASILIA |
City on the Moselle, formerly Augusta Treverorum |
TRIER |
Colloquially, an unexpected change of tactic or behaviour |
SWITCHEROO |
Cuban street dance, from the Spanish word for “wheel” |
RUEDA |
Dark sauce used extensively in oriental cookery |
SOY |
Dotheboys Hall schoolmaster in Nicholas Nickleby |
Wackford Squeers |
Duo who had a 1981 club hit with You’re the One for Me |
D Train |
Eight, or a group of eight |
OGDOAD |
Footballer who played 243 games for Hull City, 2002-2011 |
Ian Ashbee |
Founder of the Ballet Russes in 1909 |
Sergei Diaghilev |
Free of unwanted flora |
WEEDLESS |
Glen Coe’s Three Sisters are ridges of this mountain |
bidean nam bian |