“Him the Almighty Power / Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ____ sky” (Paradise Lost) |
ETHEREAL |
“I am ____ your contempt for my character and opinions, sir” (George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman) |
proud of |
“It is not sin that kills the soul, but ____” (16th-century satirist and moralist Bishop Hall) |
IMPENITENCE |
1922 Nobel physics laureate, for work on “the structure of atoms and […] the radiation emanating from them” |
niels bohr |
1992 Formula One world champion |
Nigel Mansell |
A beard or bristle of barley |
AWN |
A former technique of mixing powdered gold with mercury to gild cheap metal, now replaced by safer alternatives |
ORMOLU |
A projecting cantilevered window |
ORIEL |
A spectre, or an idealised image |
EIDOLON |
An ace in golf |
hole in one |
Animated TV series set in Bikini Bottom |
SpongeBob SquarePants |
Bella Donna was a solo album by Fleetwood Mac’s ____ |
Stevie Nicks |
Captain ____ co-founded the punk band the Damned |
SENSIBLE |
Contractually hired |
CHARTERED |
France’s Camargue region is part of the ____ delta |
RHONE |
Group member who thinks their presence is irrelevant |
spare part |
Groups of eight |
OCTADS |
Hindi for “goddess”, also used after a Hindu woman’s first name as a form of respect |
DEVI |
In 2015, Nigel ____ became the second Welsh referee of a rugby union world cup final |
OWENS |
In electrical engineering, the opposition to alternating current in a circuit |
IMPEDANCE |
In Greek myth, the beloved of Eros |
PSYCHE |
In need of 28A |
UNEXCITED |
Informally in Australia, a mature marsupial |
old man roo |
Informally in Australia, an early night is “only a ____” |
PUP |