China cup for a friar |
CAPUCHIN |
Clear profit or gain |
NET |
Dramatic musicals in which words are sung |
OPERAS |
Duck with soft feathers |
EIDER |
Felt, had mental impression |
SENSED |
Figures of speech |
TROPES |
Full of high spirits, very lively |
EXUBERANT |
George . . ., Irish writer of 'Esther Waters' etc. |
MOORE |
George Eliot novel 'Silas . . .' |
MARNER |
German submarine of WW2 |
UBOAT |
Great river flowing from Turkey through Iraq |
TIGRIS |
Greek goddess of love, like Rome's Venus |
APHRODITE |
Grow like Proust |
SPROUT |
Herbs with long tubular onionflavoured leaves |
CHIVES |
Hinged rod in umbrella |
RIB |
Inflammation of the lungs |
PNEUMONIA |
Ingenuous, easily deceived |
NAIVE |
Initially, a formal flying saucer |
UFO |