McVitie’s biscuits launched in 1985 |
HOBNOBS |
Metropolitan county including part of the Peak District national park |
South Yorkshire |
Microwave amplifier often used in atomic clocks |
MASER |
Mike and the Mechanics single, partly paraphrasing … |
The Living Years |
Parisian theatre founded by Louis XIV in 1680 |
Comedie-Francaise |
Pestilential or vexatious |
plaguey |
Presenter of the Today programme on Radio 4, 1975-93 |
Brian Redhead |
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the central character in The ____ |
IDIOT |
Private detective played by Richard Roundtree in three feature films and seven TV films in the 1970s |
SHAFT |
Range of probabilities in which the only values of the random variable are 0 and 1 |
Bernoulli distribution |
Someone who studies trees |
DENDROLOGIST |
Steals fruit from gardens or orchards |
scrumps |
Support staff, as it were |
CRUTCH |
Test with a drunkometer (spelling with Z) |
breathalyze |
The company formerly called Facebook, Inc |
META |
The heroine of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake |
ODETTE |
The name of this gull is an imitation of its cry |
KITTIWAKE |
The radial supports of a wheel |
SPOKES |
Unfamiliar with |
new to |
US coins first minted in 1921, the last of their denomination to be struck in silver |
peace dollars |
Wealthy cartoon character played by Macaulay Culkin in a 1994 comedy film |
Richie Rich |
Wrapped garments common in the Malay archipelago |
SARONGS |