| “Grow great by your example and put on / The dauntless spirit of ____” (Shakespeare, King John) |
RESOLUTION |
| “Till the injurious Romans did ____ / This tribute from us, we were free” (Shakespeare, Cymbeline) |
EXTORT |
| “Whereas an ambiguous statement may be vague by accident or intent, an equivocal one is calculatedly ____” (Bill Bryson, Troublesome Words) |
UNCLEAR |
| “____ and wisdom are not opposing values” (Bill Clinton) |
STRENGTH |
| 1996 football single featuring Baddiel and Skinner |
Three Lions |
| A Bakewell tart has this almond-based filling |
FRANGIPANE |
| A deer’s horn |
ANTLER |
| A North American born of Japanese immigrant parents |
NISEI |
| A rhyming game |
CRAMBO |
| A shivering fit |
AGUE |
| A ____ question is one which does not invite an answer |
RHETORICAL |
| Also known as the “Cradle of Liberty”, a popular tourist site in Boston, Massachusetts |
Faneuil Hall |
| An ecclesiastical council, or an obsolete word for a conjunction of planets |
SYNOD |
| Another name for hydrogen cyanide |
prussic acid |
| Archaically or in dialect, an ant |
EMMET |
| Art gallery owned by Jay Jopling, with two branches in London and one on Hong Kong Island |
White Cube |
| Capital of Thessaly and, in myth, the birthplace of Achilles |
LARISSA |
| Designating the most negative outcome of something |
worst-case |
| Disneyland is in this Californian city |
ANAHEIM |
| Early devices used to help those with poor hearing |
ear trumpets |
| Early type of motorcycle with a passenger seat in front |
forecar |
| Framework allowing a vehicle to carry extra luggage |
roof rack |
| Henrik ____ wrote Hedda Gabler |
IBSEN |
| In Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, the one mentioned after Venezuelan beaver cheese |
CHEDDAR |
| Like his brother Denis, ____ played football for Arsenal and cricket for Middlesex |
Leslie Compton |
