“And ____ canker lives in sweetest bud. / All men make faults”(Shakespeare, Sonnet 35) |
LOATHSOME |
“We are in Afghanistan because this is ____ necessary war” (David Miliband, writing in 2009) |
every bit a |
“____ is a contradiction in terms” (Groucho Marx) |
military intelligence |
1966 Elvis Presley single, released with Spinout on the other side |
All That I Am |
2019 film, a live-action version of a 1941 Walt Disney film |
DUMBO |
A light form of lava often used as an abrasive |
PUMICE |
A unit of atmospheric pressure |
BAR |
Acted like Baron Munchausen |
spun a yarn |
Actor famous for playing Count Dracula |
Christopher Lee |
An alternative to “annoy” often seen in the past tense |
DISGRUNTLE |
An Appalachian yokel |
HILLBILLY |
An area of open grassland, also a measure of yarn |
LEA |
Bill ____’s Croydon North West by-election win in 1981 was the first parliamentary victory for the SDP-Liberal Alliance |
PITT |
Boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to win his first world heavyweight title |
George Foreman |
Bread from the northeast, often served with a savoury filling |
stottie cake |
British manufacturing company which abandoned its electric car project last October |
DYSON |
Coined during the First World War, a name for the condition commonly abbreviated as PTSD |
shell shock |
Collection of 39 essays by G K Chesterton, published in 1910 |
Alarms and Discursions |
Del Shannon’s first single, a 1961 No 1 hit in the USA and UK |
RUNAWAY |
Estuary in the US states of Maryland and Virginia |
Chesapeake Bay |
Fasteners with hexagonal sockets |
Allen screws |
Final single released by the Beatles |
The Long and Winding Road |
Foul-smelling weasel relative, Mustela putorius |
POLECAT |
In the USA, “heinies” |
BACKSIDES |