“Do you find you can’t finish the ____ like you used to […]?” (Doc Morrissey in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin) |
CROSSWORD |
1979 comedy horror film in which Count Dracula is expelled from his castle by a communist government |
Love At First Bite |
2006 DreamWorks film about hungry animals raiding food in suburbia |
Over the Hedge |
A Chinese tea made with partly fermented leaves |
OOLONG |
A group of travellers using 10Ds |
CARAVAN |
A not necessarily respectful name for an important person |
WORTHY |
An apparent bodily substance representing vigorous work |
elbow grease |
Australia’s Test cricket captain, 1999-2004 |
Steve Waugh |
Australian arboreal marsupial, also called a phalanger |
POSSUM |
Avant-garde arts movement launched in Italy in 1909 |
FUTURISM |
BBC TV quiz show which included “dummy keyboard” and “hidden melody” rounds |
Face the Music |
Chansons de ____ are medieval verse romances about heroic deeds |
GESTE |
Dan Brown’s fourth novel about Robert Langdon, which starts in Florence |
INFERNO |
David ____ won the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Olympics |
hemery |
Device accumulating electric charge on a hollow metal globe |
Van de Graaff generator |
Device that can be used to record a cycle ride |
Helmet cam |
Euphemism used in Monty Python’s “How to recognize different parts of the body” sketch |
naughty bits |
Full of excitement and enthusiasm about something new |
ABUBBLE |
GT stands for the Italian phrase “gran ____” |
TURISMO |
Having a pH value less than seven |
ACIDIC |
Helen ____ played Catriona in Absolutely Fabulous |
LEDERER |
In 1941, artist Roland Penrose wrote the ____ Manual of Camouflage |
Home Guard |
India’s Border Security Force ____ Band is the world’s first military band of its kind |
CAMEL |
Indicating pain or a requirement |
crying out |