1937 French film, remade as Algiers in the US, which reputedly inspired The Third Man |
Pepe Le Moko |
A French boarding school |
PENSIONNAT |
A native of, say, Maine, Vermont, or Connecticut |
New Englander |
A sailor qualified to captain a merchant vessel |
master mariner |
Capital of Burma |
RANGOON |
Captain of Europe’s 2006 winning Ryder Cup team |
Ian Woosnam |
Children’s TV show whose original intended name was 123 Avenue B |
sesame street |
Coach of Scotland’s football team between caretaker managers Billy Stark and Malky Mackay |
Gordon Strachan |
Comestible sometimes called forcemeat |
STUFFING |
Dresden and Hamburg both stand on this river |
ELBE |
Event which, in the US, is called a bachelorette party |
hen night |
Fruit tree native to China, where recent research suggests cultivation before 5000BC |
PEACH |
Goes potholing as a pastime |
SPELUNKS |
Grass whose shiny grains are used as beads |
Job's tears |
Hairstylist who repopularised the bob cut in the 1960s |
Vidal Sassoon |
Half of the songs on this Blondie album were released as singles |
Parallel Lines |
Hideo Kojima video game with an apocalyptic setting, launched in November 2019 |
Death Stranding |
Imitation or representation of the real world in art |
MIMESIS |
Informally, a kind of radio popular about 50 years ago |
TRANNIE |
Italian princely house of which Britain’s Hanoverian monarchs were descendants |
ESTE |
Jaguar sports car manufactured 1961-1975 |
E-Type |
Lifestyle magazine founded in Paris in 1945, and launched in Britain and the US in 1985 |
ELLE |
Literary island partner of Blefuscu |
LILLIPUT |
London church sometimes called “Britain’s Valhalla” |
Westminster Abbey |