1812-46 legislation which, it might be said, went against the grain |
corn laws |
1962-73 Nasa program which visited three planets |
MARINER |
A canal used exclusively for leisure craft |
cruiseway |
A conspicuous blunder; a TV woollen extraterrestrial |
CLANGER |
According to etiquette, after-dinner port should be passed to ____ |
the left |
Actor who voiced Lightning McQueen in the Cars films |
Owen Wilson |
Actress who played Uhura in the original Star Trek |
Nichelle Nichols |
Agency of the Soviet Union preceding the OGPU and KGB |
CHEKA |
Alexander Pope poem which Samuel Johnson said “excelled every composition of the same kind” |
Eloisa to Abelard |
Continent which is roughly divided in two by the equator |
AFRICA |
Departments or provinces of Greece |
nomarchies |
Designer of the Volkswagen Beetle |
Ferdinand Porsche |
Drawn from wide-ranging sources |
ECLECTIC |
Formerly, a junior boy scout |
wolf cub |
From effect to cause |
a posteriori |
Gas typically used in welding |
ACETYLENE |
Greek writer regarded as the father of tragedy |
AESCHYLUS |
Historically, extra weight added to some goods purchases to compensate for wastage in transit |
TRET |
In English placenames, this indicates location on a Roman road |
STREET |
In Roman Britain, ____ was at the northern end of the Via Devana |
CHESTER |
In the version patented by Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, these wind-up timing devices have settings from 40 to 208 |
METRONOMES |
In US finance, the best ____ are designated AAA |
bond ratings |
Jake Gyllenhaal’s co-star in Brokeback Mountain |
Heath Ledger |
John von ____ did important work in the Manhattan Project, but is not depicted in the film Oppenheimer |
NEUMANN |
Kenneth ____ was the first president of 31A |
kaunda |