Head of Springfield Elementary School in The Simpsons |
Seymour Skinner |
In Scotland and northern England, an ascending path |
upgang |
Informal name for glandular fever |
kissing disease |
Light rail transport vehicle with body sections linked by flexible joints |
Articulated tram |
Noodle type similar to bigoli or pici pasta |
UDON |
Northern diving duck, the male having mainly black plumage |
SCOTER |
Of the soul, to pass from a dying body to a living one |
TRANSMIGRATE |
Old name for cattle or sheep diseases, sometimes used to describe a biblical plague of Egypt |
MURRAIN |
Outdoorsy or countrified, based on a type of cloth |
TWEEDY |
People in authority or with a high military rank |
top brass |
Piedmont region famed for its sparkling wine |
ASTI |
Poetic word meaning shining or glistening |
NITID |
Renunciation of religious faith |
APOSTASY |
Russia’s Yenisei River flows into this part of the Arctic Ocean |
Kara Sea |
Silicate of aluminium named after part of Spain |
ANDALUSITE |
Small dog breed such as Blenheim or Cavalier King Charles |
toy spaniel |
The grouchy Muppet of Sesame Street |
OSCAR |
The groundhog in the film Groundhog Day |
Punxsutawney Phil |
The main focus of Thomas Malory’s The Book of Sir ____ de Lyones was a famous chivalric love story |
TRISTRAM |
The operetta Die ____ has a plot from a play by the librettists of Bizet’s Carmen and Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène |
fledermaus |
The Sarum ____ was the main form of liturgy in pre-Reformation England |
RITE |
The world’s smallest state, to locals |
Citta del Vaticano |
Twitter’s old logo was named after this basketball star |
Larry Bird |
US actress who starred in 14 films with William Powell |
Myrna Loy |