| “Give [a] baby a fair chance, and if it doesn’t do something it ___ to a doctor should be called in at once” (Jerome K Jerome) |
oughtn't |
| “Sainsbury’s apologises for ____ faux pas in Cornwall” (Times headline in 2021) |
cream tea |
| “Too often the Ukrainian issue is ____ as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West.” (Henry Kissinger) |
POSED |
| A children’s novel and TV series about a girl who lives in a residential care home |
The Story of Tracy Beaker |
| A column with symbols and figures, usually near a Pacific coast |
totem pole |
| A confusingly named dark fruit paste |
damson cheese |
| A decisive gun-fight or part of a sporting contest |
shoot-out |
| A French-based term for a helmet |
CASQUE |
| A message which is not enciphered is described as ____ |
en clair |
| A name taken from Greek myth for someone who prefers pleasure and luxury to practical matters |
lotus-eater |
| A Titan in Greek myth, the father of Helios and Selene |
HYPERION |
| A ____ shower has no rain |
METEOR |
| Aircraft control surface combining the functions of two better-known control surfaces |
ELEVON |
| An alphabetical list of pasta types probably ends with these tubes from the south |
ZITI |
| An often unstable column of glacial ice |
SERAC |
| Beatles song with the line “Ah, look at all the lonely people” |
Eleanor Rigby |
| Before about 1920, an underground chamber or insulated building, possibly in the grounds of a stately home |
ice house |
| Chris Evans first hosted ____ on Channel 4 in 1996 |
TFI Friday |
| Damaging (something) |
a detriment to |
| Docile cat breed developed in California in the 1960s |
RAGDOLL |
| In 1992, Leicester Polytechnic became ____ University |
de Montfort |
| In a particular sporting context, to make a faulty stroke |
catch a crab |
| In German, what we once called the “German Ocean” |
nordsee |
| In Manet’s A ____, bottles of Bass can be identified |
Bar at the Folies Bergere |
