“But ____, just to watch him die” (Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues) |
I shot a man in Reno |
“Good company and good ____ are the very sinews of virtue” (Izaak Walton) |
DISCOURSE |
“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____” (Ambrose Bierce) |
UNKNOWABLE |
1973 single by Roxy Music; 1979 album by the Crusaders |
Street Life |
A Berkshire town; marshy ground; to shed skin |
SLOUGH |
A name for romantic affection which is seen as trite or clichéd |
LURVE |
A ____ allows both conventional and microwave cooking |
combination oven |
America’s Buckeye state |
OHIO |
Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree centigrade |
CALORIE |
An American duplex house contains two ____ |
APARTMENTS |
Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
MESOPOTAMIA |
Ancient Roman novel by Petronius Arbiter, about licentious adventures in southern Italy |
SATYRICON |
Anne ____ played Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street and Jean in Dinnerladies |
REID |
Another name for London pride, or in North America, catchfly |
none-so-pretty |
Antiviral protein produced by infected cells |
INTERFERON |
Apple Inc’s headquarters are in this Californian city |
cupertino |
Arts-based documentary series aired since 1975, mainly on BBC Two |
ARENA |
Austria’s first female chancellor, appointed on an interim basis after the 2019 Ibiza-gate scandal |
Brigitte Bierlein |
Babbitt was one of this US author’s best-known books |
Sinclair Lewis |
Capital of the Limburg province of the Netherlands |
MAASTRICHT |
Colloquially, a cold-stimulus headache induced by eating ice cream, for example |
brain freeze |
Colloquially, a tablet of the drug Ecstasy |
disco biscuit |
European country with about half the area of the UK, but a similar length of coastline |
GREECE |
Exclamation, usually subdued, used to express annoyance |
GRRR |