| “She had the ____ precocity of poverty” (Thackeray, describing Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair) |
DISMAL |
| “Uneasy lies the head that wears a ____” (Henry IV, Part 2) |
CROWN |
| A ballet step |
PAS |
| A ____ may use colours or shading to show land elevation |
relief map |
| American actress who is the daughter of Judy Garland |
Liza Minnelli |
| An alternative name for yarn bombing |
guerilla knitting |
| An organ stop imitating the sound of a flute |
CLARABELLA |
| Another name for the gloaming in which one may roam |
half-light |
| Area between the soft palate and the base of the skull |
nasopharynx |
| Bankrupt |
trade-fallen |
| Bernard ____ played M in eleven Bond films |
LEE |
| British winner of breaststroke gold at the 2016 Olympics |
Adam Peaty |
| Decorative knot, often made around a cylinder |
Turks head |
| Document listing 80 heresies, issued by the Holy See in 1864 |
Syllabus of Errors |
| Down under, a sleeve keeping one’s beer cold |
stubby holder |
| Forename apparently created by a misspelling in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline |
IMOGEN |
| Former Australian rock band fronted by Michael Hutchence |
INXS |
| Former department store on the east side of Moscow’s Red Square |
GUM |
| Former rock band fronted by Michael Stipe |
REM |
| Germany’s largest port |
HAMBURG |
| Grandson of Titus in Titus Andronicus |
Young Lucius |
| In Love’s Labour’s Lost, a curate and friend of Holofernes |
Sir Nathaniel |
| In the Book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and ____ are thrown into the fiery furnace |
ABEDNEGO |
| Irish type of ring, usually with two hands embracing a heart |
claddagh |
| Iron ____ is often called “fool’s gold” |
PYRITES |
