“Boy, boy, crazy boy, / Get ____, boy!” (West Side Story lyrics) |
COOL |
“Ultimo” used to mean “of the ____” in business letters |
last month |
A bird that cannot yet fly |
NESTLING |
A foreign country, according to LP Hartley |
the past |
A form of vitamin B3 |
NIACIN |
A literary souvenir |
signed copy |
A major landmark in this southeast London district is a large fibreglass feline |
Catford |
A word that starts the usual name of three different countries |
UNITED |
According to Monty Python, Martin ____ could “think you under the table” |
HEIDEGGER |
Alternative to “firn” as a name for snow on its way to becoming glacier ice |
NEVE |
An old alternative to “medicine”, as both healing and drugs |
PHYSIC |
An ____ novel is a series of documents, especially letters |
EPISTOLARY |
Boadicea’s tribe |
ICENI |
Brief statement, often surprising or satirical |
EPIGRAM |
British comedian compared to Norman Wisdom, or the first man to run 400m in less than 44 seconds |
Lee Evans |
Calcium carbonate hanging from a limestone cave roof |
STALACTITE |
Canaan, according to the Old Testament |
the promised land |
Determine the concentration a substance in a solution by volume measurement |
TITRATE |
Edmonton is the capital of this Canadian province |
ALBERTA |
England’s traditional heraldic emblem |
Tudor rose |
Foodstuff originally made in Normandy |
Camembert cheese |
Game of physical agility, first sold in the 1960s |
TWISTER |
Good example of a particular characteristic |
EPITOME |
Howard Land played The Onedin Line’s Captain ____ on TV |
BAINES |
In The Full Monty, a dance move was likened to the Arsenal ____ |
offside trap |
Instrument that twice answers the celesta at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy |
bass clarinet |
Island reached by ferry from Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull |
IONA |
Johnny Depp made his film debut in this 1984 American slasher movie |
A Nightmare On Elm Street |
Lady Godiva’s husband |
LEOFRIC |
Likely to become an earworm |
CATCHY |