| “Come in!” across the 30A |
ENTREZ |
| 3D puzzle with 6 colours and 26 visible blocks, a 1980s craze |
Rubik's cube |
| Board game played in Europe since Roman times |
Nine men's morris |
| Broad cravat tied under the chin; a make of gas water heater popular from the 1930s to the 1950s |
ASCOT |
| By crossing it with an acorn, our Gracie’s brother Joe created the biggest ____ in the world |
ASPIDISTRA |
| Civil parish on the west side of the Lizard peninsula, with a cove including a fishing harbour |
MULLION |
| Container holding about five gallons, originally used for storing fuel |
JERRYCAN |
| Cube of three |
Twenty seven |
| Deep-sea fishing port in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall |
NEWLYN |
| Enquire about someone, often in regard to their health |
ask after |
| From 2014, the name of a UK-published reference book, now in its 152nd edition |
Whitaker's |
| Gas mixture, mainly of methane, found in coal mines |
FIREDAMP |
| Glass vessel containing liquid for injections |
AMPOULE |
| Godfrey ____ was “arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen” according to Wisden |
EVANS |
| HMS Tyne and HMS Mersey monitored a Russian attack submarine as it passed through this body of water in July |
English Channel |
| How “pretty maids” were arranged in Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary |
in a row |
| Ignominious failure |
FIASCO |
| In colloquial expressions, an alternative to “bad way” |
Sorry state |
| Increasing in strength |
intensifying |
| JRR Tolkien’s “hole-builder” |
HOBBIT |
| Largest island of Thailand |
PHUKET |
| Leaves home for a holiday |
Goes away |
| Members of the Vatican City’s de facto army |
Swiss Guards |
| Name given to Joseph Priestley’s “dephlogisticated air” by Lavoisier, who first recognised it as an element, in 1777 |
OXYGEN |
