| Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia |
RIYADH |
| Lord --, character in a comic strip in 'The Beano' |
SNOOTY |
| Major waterway of central Thailand |
CHAOPHRAYA |
| Musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber |
CATS |
| Novel by Donald Henderson Clarke (1933) |
FEMALE |
| Novel by Ruth Rendell |
THEBRIDESMAID |
| Poem by Philip Larkin |
CUTGRASS |
| Santa --, rocky island off the coast of California |
CATALINA |
| Sir John --, English conductor |
BARBIROLLI |
| Sir Simon --, English conductor |
RATTLE |
| Sparrow-like North American songbird related to the cardinals |
DICKCISSEL |
| Species of shrike, with black and white plumage but a red-brown crown |
WOODCHAT |
| The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet |
DALETH |
| The heroine of 'The Merchant of Venice' |
PORTIA |