'… in Idleness alone is there perpetual ____' (Thomas Carlyle) |
DESPAIR |
'Nouns of number, or multitude, such as ____, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons […] and the like' (William Cobbett) |
MOB |
1973 Eagles album |
DESPERADO |
1973 film whose tagline is 'Where were you in '62?' |
American Graffiti |
1998 solo album by Level 42’s Mark King |
One Man |
2012 disaster/thriller film about an earthquake in Chile |
AFTERSHOCK |
A censorious critic, named after a Greek grammarian |
zoilist |
A horseman or mounted knight |
CHEVALIER |
A vessel, a gun, or a substance used by builders |
MORTAR |
An easting or northing on an Ordnance Survey map |
COORDINATE |
Annual award administered by New York's Columbia University |
Pulitzer Prize |
Another name for a choker |
NECKLET |
Author of Whisky Galore and co-founder of the Scottish National Party |
Compton Mackenzie |
Baseball fielding position between second and third base |
SHORTSTOP |
Blood poisoning |
SEPTICAEMIA |
Bonnie Tyler’s No 1 single of 1983 |
Total Eclipse of the Heart |
Character played by Sophie Marceau in The World Is Not Enough |
Elektra King |
City founded as Eboracum |
YORK |
Comedian who scored +28 on her QI debut in 2013 |
Sara Pascoe |
Common introduction to toast |
here's to |
Device which regulates a machine's supply of fuel or water |
GOVERNOR |
East Midlands county which contains only two towns |
RUTLAND |
Editor of the patriotic magazine John Bull |
Horatio Bottomley |
Egyptian goddess of fertility |
ISIS |
Elaborate 18th-century decorative style |
ROCOCO |
European colour matching system |
RAL |
Film whose villain is Francisco Scaramanga |
The Man With The Golden Gun |
Follower of the doctrine that the state is supreme in ecclesiastical matters |
ERASTIAN |
Former chemical company acquired by AkzoNobel |
ICI |