Like Florence’s baptistery or Ely Cathedral’s central tower |
OCTAGONAL |
London thoroughfare on which the Athenaeum, the Reform Club and the Travellers Club are situated |
pall mall |
Member of a practically extinct US offshoot of the Quakers, practising a celibate and communal lifestyle |
SHAKER |
Musical term meaning “slowly” |
LENTO |
Our associated weekly publication about the world of books |
tls |
Overshadowed in importance or power |
ECLIPSED |
Permission from a bishop for a priest to leave a diocese to take up a new appointment elsewhere |
EXEAT |
Prizewinning creator of Fleabag |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
Romantic comedy about the widowed Alan Buttershaw and Celia Dawson |
Last Tango in Halifax |
Roped tussles often seen at county shows and the like |
Tugs-of-war |
Scottish landmark which Robert Louis Stevenson called “A hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design” |
Arthur's Seat |
Secretary of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908 who wrote a children’s classic |
Kenneth Grahame |
Small, agile songbirds with black, white and pink plumage |
Long-tailed tits |
State capital of Wyoming |
CHEYENNE |
Structure, normally with slats, which protects windows from the sun in hot countries |
Brise-soleil |
Swiss city, the centre of Calvinism in the Reformation |
GENEVA |
The abbreviated name for Anglesey’s 58-lettered village |
Llanfair PG |
The elected chief of the stranded boys in Lord of the Flies |
RALPH |
The raft which was sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 |
Kon-Tiki |
The seventh consecutive UK No 1 hit for the Beatles on the Parlophone label, and their first track lasting more than three minutes |
ticket to ride |
To an American, this would be romaine |
Cos lettuce |
Tree whose dark purple “berries” are strictly seed cones |
JUNIPER |
Vermouth, pastis, or dry sherry, for example |
APERITIF |