“A leader who doesn’t ____ before he sends his nation into battle isn’t fit to be a leader” (Golda Meir) |
HESITATE |
“Mark where his carnage and his ____ cease! / He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace” (Byron) |
CONQUESTS |
1963 film about fictional rugby league footballer Frank Machin |
This Sporting Life |
A Ken Loach film; character played by Jennifer Lien in Star Trek: Voyager |
KES |
A two-masted sailing boat |
KETCH |
A wine grower or merchant |
VINTNER |
According to a 2013 survey, one who gives American children an average of $3.70 per “item” |
tooth fairy |
Andalusia’s second most populous city |
MALAGA |
Athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin |
Jesse Owens |
Band whose debut single (1978) was Take Me, I’m Yours |
SQUEEZE |
Beat it! |
SKEDADDLE |
Broadcaster who created That Was The Week That Was |
Ned Sherrin |
Building offering access to computer equipment for those in a rural area |
telecottage |
Comic opera whose central character has four daughters — Mabel, Edith, Kate, and Isabel |
The Pirates of Penzance |
Consider something at length |
chew it over |
Euphuism was the distinctive style of Elizabethan writer and playwright John ____ |
LYLY |
Eva’s henpecked husband in several Tom Sharpe novels |
WILT |
Form of social protest used in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s |
hunger march |
Fort William is at the northeast end of ____ |
Loch Linnhe |
Gold or silver coin once used in Europe |
DUCAT |
Ian ____ fronted Echo and the Bunnymen, 1978-88 |
mcculloch |
In 2006 ____ won the best actress Oscar winner for Walk the Line |
Reese Witherspoon |
In Greek myth, soothsayer who introduced the worship of Dionysus |
melampus |