“Just ____ at that news and congratulate our forces” (Margaret Thatcher on the recapture of Sough Georgia in 1982) |
REJOICE |
“The pathetic ____” is John Ruskin’s term for the attribution of human conduct or emotions to non-human things |
FALLACY |
’Ullo John! Gotta New ____? was Alexei Sayle’s 1984 top 20 hit |
MOTOR |
1979 UK No 1 Bee Gees song |
TRAGEDY |
A medicine thought to be fraudulent |
NOSTRUM |
A military canteen or the organisation running it |
NAAFI |
A ____ lets a horse tow continuously when a towpath crosses a canal |
roving bridge |
American star of 1950s and 1960s sitcoms with a version of her forename in the title |
Lucille Ball |
Answer to “Often found in the bottom of bird cages”, the last clue in a Two Ronnies sketch about crossword solving |
GRIT |
Channel excavated for a railway or canal |
CUT |
Circuit used in arithmetic logic units in computers |
ADDER |
Coach of 1924 Olympic 100m winner Harold Abrahams |
Sam Mussabini |
Composer of six Paris and twelve London symphonies |
HAYDN |
Displeasure, or archaically, a shadow |
UMBRAGE |
Effect seen during solar eclipses, caused by the rugged topography of the moon’s surface |
Baily's beads |
Expert on bushcraft and survival, first seen on BBC television in 1994 |
Ray Mears |
Freehand representation used in school geography |
sketch map |
German name for a late harvest wine, often sweet |
AUSLESE |
Glenn Miller’s signature tune; a theme in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
moonlight serenade |
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the lover of Hermia |
LYSANDER |
In Italy, these might be dipped into coffee |
BISCOTTI |
In old style paper sizes, ____ was 20 inches by 25 |
ROYAL |
In ship-building, the opposite of “hog” as a way for a hull to be stressed by its position relative to waves |
SAG |
In zoology, something ____ lives in tiny spaces |
interstitial |
Literary name for grassy ground |
GREENSWARD |