“Every other author may aspire to ____; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach” (Samuel Johnson) |
PRAISE |
“The Manassa Mauler”, world heavyweight champion, 1919-26 |
Jack Dempsey |
1960s and 1970s ITV show in which Jonathan Routh played practical jokes on the unsuspecting public |
candid camera |
A portable organ used mainly in renaissance times |
REGAL |
A skilled musician or instrumentalist |
VIRTUOSO |
A term for industrial action not approved by the relevant union |
WILDCAT |
A term invented by Lewis Carroll for words such as brunch, chortle or smog |
PORTMANTEAU |
Aeroplane component, also called a flap |
AILERON |
An individual track in a marshalling yard |
SIDING |
An irrational number has an infinite number of ____s |
Decimal place |
Australian leg-spinner who dismissed Mike Gatting with the “ball of the century” in the 1993 Old Trafford Test |
Shane Warne |
Australian wicketkeeper who died on the same day as 1A and who claimed 355 Test dismissals in his career |
Rodney Marsh |
Belonging to dreams |
ONEIRIC |
Boeing’s CH-47, a double rotor helicopter |
CHINOOK |
Designated part of a depressed urban area, with tax and other concessions to attract businesses |
enterprise zone |
F1 racing circuit in the Rhine valley which last hosted the German Grand Prix in 2019 |
hockenheim |
Food which made the gods of ancient Greece immortal |
AMBROSIA |
France’s highest order of merit, instituted by Napoleon in 1802 |
legion dhonneur |
In Greek myth, the father of 50 sea nymphs |
NEREUS |
Informal name for the football team which plays its home matches in West Bridgford |
Notts Forest |
Location of the cochlea and vestibule |
inner ear |
Long-tailed rodent native to western North America |
pack rat |
March or yomp |
FOOTSLOG |