In 2008, Paul ____ became the first black British manager in England’s top football division |
INCE |
In Greek myth, Apollo's twin sister |
ARTEMIS |
In Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates's ____ |
NIECE |
Informally, an athlete like Emil Zatopek or Mo Farah |
distance runner |
Italics in clues indicate one of the seven ____ books owned by today's setter, as a source of the Q and A |
oxford Companion |
Items offered on Gumtree are often '____' |
in good condition |
Labour party leader between Lansbury and Gaitskell |
ATTLEE |
Large shopping centre just off the M25 near Dartford |
bluewater |
Marine arthropod often seen in fossil form |
TRILOBITE |
One who gives up easily |
DEFEATIST |
Poet like Pindar or Horace |
ODIST |
Possible part of the process of solving a crossword clue |
aha moment |
Ruling family in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy |
GROAN |
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is mostly set in ____ |
PADUA |
Showjumper Richard ____ won three Olympic gold medals |
MEADE |
Sign that an exchange is ready to initiate a phone call |
dialling tone |
The beautiful witch in the 1964-72 TV sitcom Bewitched |
SAMANTHA |
The lingua franca of the Hanseatic League |
Middle Low German |
This pass was the scene of a battle between Persians and outnumbered Greeks |
THERMOPYLAE |
Weight redistribution device used in winter walks |
SNOWSHOE |
William Ralph ____, Dean of St Paul's cathedral, was nominated three times for the Nobel prize for literature |
INGE |
____ at End House is the sixth Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot |
PERIL |
____ Elkins was the eponymous character in a 1960s film |
ALFIE |
____ particles include neutrinos and bosons |
SUBATOMIC |
____ played male and female school heads in 1950s British comedy films |
Alastair Sim |