“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just ____.” (George Best) |
SQUANDERED |
“The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. The ____ is charity itself.” (Darcy in Pride and Prejudice) |
ADIEU |
1927 novel featuring Harry Haller |
STEPPENWOLF |
4.1 million Ford ____s were sold in the UK, 1968-2000 |
ESCORT |
A ___ stalk often garnishes a bloody mary |
CELERY |
Another name for an avocado |
alligator pear |
Athletics track surface, not in Olympic use after 1964 |
CINDERS |
Bam Margera and Johnny Knoxville, for example |
JACKASSES |
Barrister who co-wrote The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister |
Cherie Blair |
Bird in the genus Podicipedidae, commonly “arsefoot”, which means much the same |
GREBE |
Catch-all name given to Theodore Roosevelt’s 1901-09 domestic programme |
square deal |
Colloquial term for an ophthalmologist |
Eye doctor |
Country central to the 19th-century “Great Game” |
AFGHANISTAN |
County symbolised by a rampant white horse |
KENT |
Elvis Presley’s first No 1 hit |
Heartbreak Hotel |
Escaping danger in a cunning way |
ELUDING |
Feminist author of Sexual Personae, published in 1990 |
Camille Paglia |
Host country of the first World Cup |
URUGUAY |
In 1962, Andy Warhol made an eight-hour slow-motion film about this structure |
Empire State Building |
In a modern idiom, to mention something |
go there |
In cuisine, the thymus or pancreas of a lamb or calf |
SWEETBREADS |
Italian city whose main square is dominated by the facade of Basilica di San Petronio, unfinished for over 400 years |
BOLOGNA |
Ken Kesey’s 1960s “____ tests” were counter-culture social events |
ACID |