Germany’s armed forces |
bundeswehr |
Hock is sometimes called ____ wine |
RHENISH |
In Anglo-Saxon times, a domestic slave |
ESNE |
In Hinduism, a male religious teacher |
SWAMI |
Informally, megapodes, Australasian birds which incubate their eggs in piles of decaying vegetation |
mound-builders |
Ionised liquid typically used in batteries |
ELECTROLYTE |
John Galsworthy’s best-known books |
The Forsyte Saga |
Jointed dummies used by artists |
lay-figures |
Like his Messiah, this Handel oratorio has a text from bible passages and no named characters |
Israel in Egypt |
Lithuania, to a Lithuanian |
lietuva |
Marinated beef dish which, despite its name, is of American origin |
London broil |
Midlands castle; a Walter Scott novel featuring Elizabeth I |
KENILWORTH |
One who adopts an affected manner to impress others |
POSEUR |
Online abbreviation referring to offline interaction |
IRL |
Physical feature forming much of the boundary between Europe and Asia |
Ural Mountains |
Rubber and starch are examples of this kind of substance |
POLYMER |
South African region where a gold rush followed the discovery of its main reef in 1886 |
WITWATERSRAND |
The Morris ____ was the successor to the Marina |
ITAL |
The time between spring equinoxes |
solar year |
The work of a compositor |
TYPESETTING |
Third chronological instalments of films, books etc |
threequels |
To look ____ means to stare angrily at someone |
DAGGERS |
To perform an act of servile respect |
KOWTOW |
____’s Rube Goldbergian contraptions usually failed to catch the Road Runner |
Wile E Coyote |