“I’ve got a problem with my legs, they just can’t walk past a ____” (Boxer Ricky Hatton) |
CHIPPY |
1970 Beatles single on which John Lennon played a six-string bass |
The Long and Winding Road |
1980s TV show featuring detectives Crockett and Tubbs |
Miami Vice |
A mild weakness or idiosyncrasy |
FOIBLE |
A newspaper’s financial news department |
city desk |
A prerogative of mercy in the UK |
royal pardon |
A teacher of equestrianism |
riding master |
Alfredo ____ was the first footballer to win a second Ballon d’Or, in 1959 |
Di Stefano |
America’s opponents in the Ryder Cup |
Team Europe |
Ancient Greek sea god who could change his own shape |
PROTEUS |
Asperger’s syndrome is one form of this condition |
AUTISM |
Bobby ____ wrote My 60 Memorable Games |
FISCHER |
Brideshead Revisited character with a teddy bear called Aloysius |
Sebastian Flyte |
Cartoon character with a noted Brooklyn accent |
Bugs Bunny |
Cattle very similar to (or crossed with) Friesians |
HOLSTEINS |
Commercially disastrous 1987 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty |
ISHTAR |
Compulsory force or threat |
DURESS |
Geri Halliwell’s 1990s stage name |
Ginger Spice |
Imaginary line which crosses a country named after it |
EQUATOR |
In 1957 ____ became the first alcoholic drink advertised on British TV |
BABYCHAM |
In Doctor Who, the original home of the Time Lords |
gallifrey |
Island whose capital is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas |
Tristan da Cunha |
Jaime ____ was a Filipino cardinal who participated in inevitable jokes about his name |
SIN |
Jessup’s outburst to Kaffee in A Few Good Men |
You can't handle the truth |