“Set meals”, as we might call them |
TV dinners |
A Jamaican street gang in the USA |
POSSE |
A musician performing without preparation |
SIGHTREADER |
A version of baccarat in which the role of banker moves between players |
Chemin de fer |
Albert and Harold of Oil Drum Lane |
Steptoe and Son |
An Iranian Shi’ite religious leader |
AYATOLLAH |
Beyond Our Ken star who later played ARP Warden Hodges in Dad’s Army |
Bill Pertwee |
Beyond Our Ken star who played Ricky Livid |
Hugh Paddick |
Bird with a conspicuous chestnut-coloured tail |
REDSTART |
Bramblings, linnets and siskins, eg |
FINCHES |
Carry On star who portrayed Arthur Fallowfield in Beyond Our Ken |
Kenneth Williams |
Christian rite acknowledging one’s faith and full participation in the church |
CONFIRMATION |
Craftsman from the Guarneri, Amati or Stradivari families |
Violin-maker |
Department of south-western France with a sizeable British community |
DORDOGNE |
Departures from Cape Canaveral |
BLASTOFFS |
En ____ is a way of capturing a pawn in chess |
PASSANT |
Eponymous straight man of Beyond Our Ken |
Kenneth Horne |
First line of romantic verse ending “And so are you” |
Roses are Red |
French department in the north of the Pays de la Loire region |
sarthe |
From an item of clothing, an old name for a working-class woman |
SHAWLIE |
Frozen encrustation on a window |
Ice fern |
Geddington in Northamptonshire has the best preserved ____, a memorial to Edward I’s first wife |
Eleanor Cross |
Gem State resident |
IDAHOAN |
Genre of French painting of courtly figures in a rural setting associated with Watteau |
Fete galante |
Grade II-listed building in Birmingham’s Bull Ring, completed in 1965 |
ROTUNDA |
Gyorgy ____, Hungarian-born composer whose music was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey |
LIGETI |
Informally, a member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing |
SHAKER |
Italian stew of knuckle of veal cooked in tomato sauce |
Osso bucco |