Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev, author of the graphic novel Maus |
Art Spiegelman |
John Lennon’s best-selling single as a solo artist |
IMAGINE |
King who solved the riddle of the Sphinx |
OEDIPUS |
Loss of one’s sense of smell |
ANOSMIA |
Manufacturer of the M9 pistol, used by the US military |
BERETTA |
Mother-of-pearl |
NACRE |
Ms Ciccone, and a 1960s nickname of Joan Baez |
MADONNA |
Of a hawk, to turn in flight, especially to retry a failed stoop |
canceleer |
Peaky Blinders actor who played Locke in Game of Thrones |
Noah Taylor |
Principal city of the Otago region, home of New Zealand’s oldest university |
DUNEDIN |
Putative author of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
HOMER |
Red resin secreted by insects, used in dyes and varnishes |
LAC |
Rock band whose 1975 single Walk This Way was covered by Run-DMC in 1986 |
AEROSMITH |
Sea area on whose coast Aberystwyth lies |
Cardigan Bay |
Singer whose debut album Rockferry was released in 2008 |
DUFFY |
Southern African antelope with spiral horns |
NYALA |
Spoken or performed without preparation |
EXTEMPORE |
Stephen King’s first published novel |
CARRIE |
Surname shared by a British novelist and a British middle distance runner |
COE |
Taken from a TV series, something bigger inside than it appears from outside |
TARDIS |
Technology company popularly known as Big Blue |
IBM |
The only county in Ireland’s Connacht province that shares a border with the UK |
LEITRIM |
The Sheik of ____ was a 1921 jazz standard |
ARABY |
The Welsh language’s name for itself |
cymraeg |
The ____, a nickname for the British Expeditionary Force, based on a description attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm II |
Old Contemptibles |
Third iteration of a handheld gaming device, rival of Sony’s PSP |
Nintendo DSi |
US academic regarded as the “father of pragmatism” |
Charles Peirce |
Violinist who represented Thailand at the 2014 Winter Olympics |
Vanessa-Mae |
____ Stanley, female romantic lead in Pirates of Penzance |
MABEL |
____ Wood played Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings films |
ELIJAH |