A “missing link” |
APEMAN |
A process of preparing for physical exertion |
limbering up |
A tree knot |
KNUR |
Actor whose roles include Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings |
Ian Holm |
Argentinian footballer awarded the Ballon d’Or a record six times |
Lionel Messi |
As a suffix, having a particular height |
statured |
Astringent compound in red wine |
TANNIN |
Australia’s prime minister for more than 18 years between 1939 and 1966 |
Robert Menzies |
Bette Midler’s 1972 debut album |
The Divine Miss M |
Bones, to an anatomist |
OSSA |
Colloquially, an obsessive fan of a celebrity, from a 2000 song by Eminem |
STAN |
Databases of configuration settings in computer operating systems |
REGISTRIES |
Detective created by Colin Dexter |
MORSE |
Dutch darts player, No 1 in the PDC world rankings for seven years until January 3 |
Michael van Gerwen |
Examples of ____ architecture include the Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza |
MAYAN |
First British chef awarded three Michelin stars, in 1994 |
Marco Pierre White |
From Europe south of the Pyrenees |
IBERIAN |
Hollow where nerves and blood vessels enter and leave an organ such as the kidney |
HILUM |
Illicit liquor (variant spelling) |
HOOTCH |
In Greek mythology, a sea-goddess, the mother of Achilles |
THETIS |
Irish novelist who said that she “rebelled against the coercive and stifling religion into which I was born and bred” |
Edna O'Brien |
Legal wrong often remedied by an action for damages |
TORT |
Of a computer, vulnerable to intrusion |
hackable |
One skilled at telling anecdotes |
RACONTEUR |