“For ____” is the inscription on a Victoria Cross |
VALOUR |
A walk by this Winchester river inspired Keats’s To Autumn |
ITCHEN |
African country which is the world’s largest surrounded by one other country’s land and/or internal waters |
LESOTHO |
American harmonica virtuoso who wrote the film score for Genevieve |
Larry Adler |
Arch-enemy of He-Man in Mattel’s Masters of the Universe media franchise |
SKELETOR |
Australian supermodel, nicknamed “The Body” |
Elle Macpherson |
BBC TV series which started in 2005, at the White Cliffs of Dover |
COAST |
BBC TV’s ____ starred Paul Eddington as MP Jim Hacker |
yes minister |
Birds which gather in murmurations in early evenings |
STARLINGS |
Composer of the overtures Alassio (In the South) and Cockaigne |
Sir Edward Elgar |
Corfu, Cephalonia and Cythera are three of the ____ Islands |
IONIAN |
Distinctive feature of the New York Yankees uniform |
Pin-stripes |
Eight-time men’s singles champion at Wimbledon |
Roger Federer |
First novel in Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire series |
the warden |
Form of address to a Portuguese man |
SENHOR |
Former Northamptonshire castle where Richard III was born |
FOTHERINGHAY |
Great and Little ____ are islands in the Firth of Clyde |
cumbrae |
Harmless non-venomous British reptile |
Grass snake |
Historically, high-pitched trumpets |
CLARIONS |
Home on the ____ is the “unofficial anthem of the American West” |
RANGE |
In ancient Greece, a teacher of oratory |
RHETOR |
In phonetics, a process such as the change of long vowels between medieval and modern English |
Sound shift |
King Arthur’s rebellious nephew in Arthurian legend |
MORDRED |
Kirkcudbrightshire village on the north coast of 25D with a rock museum reflecting former nearby granite quarries |
creetown |