Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited |
IBIDEM |
Location of Italy’s busiest airport |
FIUMICINO |
Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton |
INTEGUMENT |
Original presenter, for 25 years, of University Challenge |
Bamber Gascoigne |
Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends |
URSULA |
Poisonous gas used in the First World War |
PHOSGENE |
Pollex |
THUMB |
Ritualistic martial art, literally “way of the sword” |
KENDO |
Sesame Street’s saxophone-playing owl |
HOOTS |
Shabby hotel or unkempt person |
FLEABAG |
Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest |
Duncan Laurence |
Small arachnid feeding on blood |
TICK |
Stupor-producing drug |
NARCOTIC |
Sugar-refining equipment which raises liquid by air or steam pressure |
monte-jus |
The Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture |
DEMETER |
The Ottoman empire’s equivalent of a prime minister |
Grand Vizier |
The three days before Ash Wednesday |
SHROVETIDE |
To “lay by the ____” is to put (someone) in fetters |
HEELS |
Trade name for the sedative drug also called quinalbarbitone |
SECONAL |
Until July 2016, Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory housed the world’s largest radio telescope |
ARECIBO |
Violet-scented substance used in perfumery |
orris root |
____ hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics |
salt lake city |
____ in Tunisia is one of the cities labelled as Islam’s fourth holiest |
kairouan |
____ national park was Tanzania’s first Unesco world heritage site |
SERENGETI |