“On the ____” means in a state of alertness |
qui vive |
12:50 |
ten to one |
1983 film directed by and starring Barbra Streisand |
YENTL |
A cold leek and potato soup |
VICHYSSOISE |
A family tree |
STEMMA |
Actress who starred alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan |
Rosanna Arquette |
After Paris (1924) and London (1948), the third European city to host the summer Olympics for a second time |
ATHENS |
Another name for a woodchuck |
GROUNDHOG |
Antipodean politician who, at 37, became the world’s youngest female head of government |
Jacinda Ardern |
As a musical instruction, becoming slower, and often louder too |
ALLARGANDO |
Cereal and other crop disease marked by powdery black spores |
SMUT |
City in Washington state which hosted Expo ’74, the first environmentally themed world’s fair |
SPOKANE |
Disease caused by thiamine deficiency |
BERIBERI |
Elizabeth Allen is “The ____” in a series of four novels by Enid Blyton |
Naughtiest Girl |
English equivalent of the Italian zucchero |
SUGAR |
Four of the ten tracks on this Lightning Seeds album were issued as singles |
JOLLIFICATION |
Gabriel and Raphael, for example |
ARCHANGELS |
Game show featured in the 1992 film White Men Can’t Jump |
JEOPARDY |
Grange Hill character, played by Todd Carty, who was given his own spin-off series |
Tucker Jenkins |
In fiction, Melville’s Captain Ahab or Dickens’s Silas Wegg |
AMPUTEE |
In old military slang, a kit inspection |
rag-fair |
Jazz musician called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington |
oscar peterson |
Largest island of the Inner Hebrides |
SKYE |
Lover of Hiawatha in Longfellow’s epic poem |
MINNEHAHA |