Jewelled headband |
TIARA |
London football team |
CHELSEA |
Mark determining musical pitch of notes |
CLEF |
Meat from a cow’s chest |
BRISKET |
Moving staircase |
ESCALATOR |
Opening of a medieval manuscript |
INCIPIT |
Opportune |
PROVIDENTIAL |
Pasta strip; silly person |
NOODLE |
Perfect |
IDEAL |
Physalis; source of light |
chinese lantern |
Picture of its artist |
self-portrait |
Poem of nineteen lines |
VILLANELLE |
Popular music style |
rock and roll |
Positive, dogmatic |
ASSERTIVE |
Process by which an area rises in standard and value |
gentrification |
Prospect of future good |
EXPECTATION |
Red Italian wine |
CHIANTI |
Reddish brown |
RUSSET |
Rental arrangement |
TENANCY |
Resumption of harmonious relations |
RAPPROCHEMENT |
Rudimentary, not fully formed |
INCHOATE |
Seed containing caffeine used to flavour drinks |
cola nut |
Something added for flavour |
SEASONING |
Speaking or writing easily (in a language) |
FLUENT |
Special right of MPs |
parliamentary privilege |
Suggesting (something bad) indirectly and unpleasantly |
INSINUATING |
Support (someone through a bad patch) |
tide over |
System of bidding at bridge |
ACOL |
The — Stone is a famous British Museum exhibit |
ROSETTA |
Worker in wood |
JOINER |