| “A friend is a person with whom I may be ____” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
SINCERE |
| “Rights ____ duties, if they are not to become mere licence” (Pope Benedict XVI) |
PRESUPPOSE |
| “So... this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender: a songbird and an ____” (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, film version) |
old hat |
| 1970s sitcom in which the only married principal character was Corky, the local policeman |
SYKES |
| 1995 comedy film, influenced by Jane Austen’s Emma but based in Beverly Hills |
CLUELESS |
| A journalist not working freelance |
STAFFER |
| A mischievous house-spirit in French folklore |
esprit follet |
| A place where official records are stored |
REGISTRY |
| A proclamation by an authority |
EDICT |
| A ____ cab seated two fares with a driver mounted behind |
HANSOM |
| A ____ runs parallel to the equator |
line of latitude |
| Amplifier device distorting the sound of an electric guitar |
OVERDRIVE |
| Biblical character sometimes compared with Judas Iscariot and Absalom for disloyalty |
DELILAH |
| Character who describes the events of a novel |
NARRATOR |
| Colloquially, a residential area with social problems such as crime |
sink estate |
| Colloquially, enjoying long-term successes |
on a roll |
| Computer interface which sends data one bit at a time |
serial port |
| Females who display unsavoury male habits |
LADETTES |
| Former English county bordering Gwent and Powys |
Hereford and Worcester |
| French author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall |
Albert Camus |
| Fruit sometimes called love apple |
TOMATO |
| George Orwell novel with the line “War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” |
Animal Farm |
| Haile ____’s 1998 world record for 10,000m has been beaten by only two runners |
gebrselassie |
