| “Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant […]. Please ____ and join me there.” (Sherlock Holmes) |
come at once |
| “The ____ is the avenue to the heart” (Voltaire) |
EAR |
| A conjuror |
ILLUSIONIST |
| A solid component of fat |
STEARIN |
| Actress who played Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day |
Halle Berry |
| Alter ego used by William Makepeace Thackeray |
Arthur Pendennis |
| An isometric saturated hydrocarbon found in motor fuel |
OCTANE |
| An upper room in a medieval manor house |
SOLAR |
| Area of England between the North and South Downs |
the Weald |
| Black and white diving bird of northern seas |
AUK |
| Carl ____ is Denmark’s best-known composer |
NIELSEN |
| Character in a Dickens short story, who “must have been an offshoot of the Blue Beard family” |
Captain Murderer |
| Covert military or government activities |
black ops |
| Danica ____ is the only woman to win an IndyCar series race |
PATRICK |
| Dutch theologian whose attempted reforms of Calvinism created the Remonstrant movement |
Jacobus Arminius |
| Electronic conversion of printed or written text |
OCR |
| Europe’s second-longest river |
DANUBE |
| Ferdinand ____ was the supreme commander of Allied forces in the First World War |
FOCH |
| Former Dutch coin, one twentieth of a guilder |
STIVER |
| Hard-wearing cotton twill fabric |
DENIM |
| Holiday resort between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries |
BLACKPOOL |
| Ian ____’s first novel was The Cement Garden |
MCEWAN |
| Ide is another name for this fish |
ORFE |
| Improvisational comedy show hosted by Clive Anderson |
Whose Line Is It Anyway |
| In 1926, Gertrude ____ became the sixth person and first woman to swim the Channel |
EDERLE |
| Italian motorcycle racer known as The Doctor |
Valentino Rossi |
| Lodging for the poor, provided by a charity |
ALMSHOUSE |
| Macromolecule found in all living cells |
RNA |
| Male head of a household |
PATERFAMILIAS |
