In IT, a set of rules about a type of data, such as the presence of a grid and clues in a file representing a crossword |
SCHEMA |
Informally, a portable music source that preceded the Walkman and iPod |
TRANNIE |
Informally, in the US, to achieve profitable success |
hit pay dirt |
Iron-tipped spear used historically in southern Africa |
ASSEGAI |
Italian baritone who sang as Scarpia in many Tosca performances with Maria Callas |
Tito Gobbi |
Mainly North American name for a notebook |
scratch pad |
Musical genre popularised by Saturday Night Fever |
DISCO |
Mystery thriller film set in swinging Sixties London, winner of the 1967 Palme d’Or at Cannes |
blow-up |
Palma is the capital of this archipelago |
Balearic Islands |
Perchance |
UNINTENTIONALLY |
Poetic repetition of sounds, as used in Poe’s “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” |
ASSONANCE |
Possible result of (UK) annual inflation over 9 per cent |
pay rise |
Roger Moore’s first James Bond film |
Live and Let Die |
State whose capital, Salvador, was Brazil’s first capital city |
BAHIA |
Stopping of parliamentary activity without dissolution |
prorogation |
The earliest known printing of this US slang term for “excellent” was in 1951 |
NEATO |
The little ____ is an aquatic bird also called “dabchick” |
GREBE |
The only character seen in all of CS Lewis’s Narnia books |
ASLAN |
The second of David Bowie’s “Berlin Trilogy” albums |
HEROES |
The Smiths and the “Madchester” scene both influenced this musical genre |
BRITPOP |
To verbally intimidate an opponent in cricket |
SLEDGE |
Toto’s debut single of 1978 |
Hold the Line |
Where to see Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights |
Museo del Prado |
World ____ are events showcasing national achievements, held quinquennially since 2000 |
EXPOS |