“About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that ____ which is called supper” (Love’s Labour’s Lost) |
NOURISHMENT |
“The moon’s an ____ thief” (Timon of Athens) |
ARRANT |
A large animal; slang for money |
RHINO |
A regular presenter of the world’s longest-running children’s TV show, from 1962 to 1972 |
Valerie Singleton |
A semicircular moulding, especially at the top or bottom of a column |
ASTRAGAL |
A small island in a river |
EYOT |
A tool used for cutting and shaping wood |
ADZE |
Actor whose most famous role was that of Alf Garnett |
Warren Mitchell |
Also known as Bury Park, Luton Town FC’s former home ground |
Dunstable Road |
Ancient Turkish city, the birthplace of St Paul |
TARSUS |
Canova sculpture in St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum |
Three Graces |
Character from a symbol font (computing) or, in America, a wild party |
WINGDING |
Denoting a physical action stimulated by thought |
Ideomotor |
Fictional diarist created by Helen Fielding for a newspaper column in 1995 |
bridget jones |
Film director who won two Oscars for Gandhi |
Richard Attenborough |
French fashion designer who co-hosted the 1990s TV series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes |
Jean-Paul Gaultier |
Fruit sometimes called a “shaved peach” |
NECTARINE |
Grange Hill character given a spin-off series, 1983-1985 |
Tucker Jenkins |
Greek city linked to Epirus by the country’s only undersea tunnel |
preveza |
Greek god of the sun |
APOLLO |
Henry David ____ wrote Walden |
THOREAU |
Informally, the Deutsches Reich, 1918-1933 |
Weimar Republic |
Just before going to bed |
last thing |
Location of Caledonian MacBrayne’s busiest terminal |
OBAN |
Luciano ____ (1937-2005), Italian tenor |
PAVAROTTI |