“What do dancers think of ____? […] We hate him. He gives us a complex because he’s too perfect.” (Mikhail Baryshnikov) |
Fred Astaire |
A school’s annual cohort of new pupils |
INTAKE |
A ____ approach is one requiring little or no intervention |
Hands-off |
Actress who plays Queen Gudrun in the 2022 film The Northman |
Nicole Kidman |
Alberta’s “Gas City”, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling as having “all hell for a basement” |
Medicine Hat |
City seen as the birthplace of the Irish linen industry |
LISBURN |
Consumer investigation show on BBC TV since 1985 |
WATCHDOG |
Coronation Street cafe owned by a railway and chess enthusiast |
Roy's Rolls |
County in Iowa; a US motorhome company founded there |
WINNEBAGO |
Dance which originated in Cuba in the 1950s |
cha-cha-cha |
Dutch philosopher, a leading 17th-century rationalist |
SPINOZA |
Dutch town, noted for its pottery, where Jan Vermeer lived |
DELFT |
Establishment outside which breakfast is consumed in the opening scene of in a 1961 film rom-con |
Tiffany's |
Extinct flying reptile, with remains principally found in limestone deposits in Bavaria |
PTERODACTYL |
First-class cricket team whose only county championship win was in 1936 |
DERBYSHIRE |
For a mathematical function y = f(x), the set of possible values for x is its ____ and the set of possible values of y is its range |
DOMAIN |
Formally, “jobs for the boys” |
NEPOTISM |
French term which once meant a light dish between courses at a formal banquet, and later a dessert |
ENTREMETS |
Given comfort in times of grief or disappointment |
CONSOLED |
Goddess of fate in Norse mythology |
NORN |
In Scotland, an assistant to a hunter |
GHILLIE |
Independent young tourists using cheap accommodation |
BACKPACKERS |
Irish-American actress Maureen ____ starred with John Wayne in Rio Grande and The Quiet Man |
O'Hara |
Italian dessert of egg yolks, sugar and marsala, beaten and usually served warm |
ZABAGLIONE |