“Mrs Rose Cottage’s eldest Mae, seventeen and never been ____” (Under Milk Wood) |
KISSED |
“Space is the final ____, and so is the sewage farm” (Diana Wynne Jones) |
FRONTIER |
“There are no atheists in ____” (Unknown) |
FOXHOLES |
1977 film for which John Williams won his second Oscar for an original score |
Star Wars |
A person who is the opposite of James May in his eponymous BBC Four series |
disassembler |
Actress who won an Oscar for Black Swan |
Natalie Portman |
Adjective for someone whose knowledge about a field is from reading or observation rather than experience |
ARMCHAIR |
American name for a skip (as a container) |
DUMPSTER |
As a musical instruction, to be repeated from the start |
da capo |
Bleu is the ____ kind of cooked steak |
RAREST |
Card game with an optional “muggins” rule, punishing failure to claim points |
CRIBBAGE |
Catlike mammals with long and bushy ringed tails |
GENETS |
Chevrolet model named after an antelope |
IMPALA |
City which hosted the 2004 summer Olympics |
ATHENS |
Company founded in France’s Cognac region in 1724 |
Remy Martin |
Computer security software company now owned by Intel |
MCAFEE |
Dogs such as Andy Murray’s Maggie May, Elton John’s Dennis, and the fictional Lassie’s friend Toots |
Border terriers |
French term denoting good knowledge of something |
au fait |
In ____ equations, the numbers of unknowns and equations are the same |
SIMULTANEOUS |
Indie band named after a South African football team |
Kaiser Chiefs |
Informal name for some plants like the brightly-flowered busy Lizzie |
BALSAM |
Kemal Ataturk’s mausoleum overlooks this city |
ANKARA |
Literary title used at various times previously but first confirmed in letters patent for John Dryden in 1668 |
poet laureate |
North American term for an autocue |
TELEPROMPTER |