“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 |