8th century king of Mercia |
OFFA |
A book of the Bible - or a 1977 album by Bob Marley & the Wailers |
EXODUS |
A play by Chekhov - or a book by Raymond Briggs |
THEBEAR |
Ancient kingdom in what is now Benin |
DAHOMEY |
Chinua Achebe's debut novel (1958) |
THINGSFALL |
City occupied by Soviet troops in 1968 |
PRAGUE |
Dostoevsky novel first published in serial form in 1866 |
CRIME |
Epic poem by Virgil |
AENEID |
Francisco de __, Spanish painter whose portrait of Wellington is in the National Gallery, London |
GOYA |
French city or an NHS advisory body in England and Wales |
NICE |
Joshua __, sailor and author of Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) |
SLOCUM |
Kipling poem, once voted the nation's favourite |
IF |
Military garment worn by Wellington in 7 |
REDCOAT |