“Great” hostilities one hundred years ago |
World War One |
A persistent preoccupation |
OBSESSION |
Adult leader of a pack of Cub Scouts |
AKELA |
Ancient port, originally on the mouth of the Tiber |
OSTIA |
Army rank between colonel and major general |
BRIGADIER |
Arturo ___, Italian conductor |
TOSCANINI |
Brian in The Magic Roundabout |
SNAIL |
Bronze representation of Helios completed by Chares of Lindos around 280BC |
COLOSSUS |
Carry On star who appeared in Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne |
Kenneth Williams |
Chinese system of callisthenics |
tai chi |
Co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures |
Steven Spielberg |
Dutch port, the birthplace of Erasmus |
ROTTERDAM |
Epic novel about the Bezukhov, Bolkonsky and Rostov families |
War and Peace |
Experts in training trees to create decorative shapes or animals |
topiarists |
First property on the UK’s standard Monopoly board |
Old Kent Road |
Form of pasta made in narrow strips |
TAGLIATELLE |
Ground-breaking BBC TV interview programme presented by John Freeman |
Face To Face |
Horse-racing parade rings |
PADDOCKS |
Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based detective |
Inspector Rebus |
Italian region whose provinces include Arezzo, Grosseto and Lucca |
TUSCANY |
Juan Manuel ___, world champion F1 driver each year from 1954 to 1957 |
FANGIO |
Jurisdiction of the chief justices of Jersey and Guernsey |
BAILIWICK |
King of Arms whose jurisdiction includes England north of the Trent |
Norroy and Ulster |
Knowledgeable in literature |
LETTERED |
Liverpudlian 1960s music |
Mersey Beat |
Moliere’s miser in L’Avare |
HARPAGON |
Norfolk setting for Arthur Ransome’s child’s novel Coot Club |
The Broads |
Old instruments of torture; boxes lined with metal spikes in which the prisoner was fastened |
Iron maidens |