| Informally, a plant of the genus Tropaeolum |
NASTURTIUM |
| Island featured in a Guardian supplement on April 1, 1977 |
san Serriffe |
| Julie T Wallace starred in the BBC dramatisation of Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a ____ |
she-devil |
| Lacking imagination or originality |
PROSAIC |
| Large variety of prawn or penguin |
KING |
| Leonard Bernstein operetta, based on a novella by Voltaire |
CANDIDE |
| Liz ____ finished fourth in Labour’s 2015 leadership election? |
KENDALL |
| Lullaby sung in the first scene of Porgy and Bess |
SUMMERTIME |
| Mexican folk song, adapted by Ritchie Valens in a 1958 hit |
La Bamba |
| Mix socially, possibly with those of other classes |
rub shoulders |
| Mrs ____ is the housekeeper at Manderley |
DANVERS |
| One Iberian city after which a dessert wine is named |
OPORTO |
| One who classifies or defines |
DESIGNATOR |
| Plants featured in a BBC Panorama report on April 1, 1957 |
spaghetti trees |
| Platinum metal element, discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1804 |
RHODIUM |
| Secondary schools in both Kennington and Croydon were founded by Thomas ____, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694-1715 |
TENISON |
| Short sleep during a working day |
power nap |
| Standard Chinese, or the language group including it |
MANDARIN |
| Stanley Holloway played Alfred ____ in the film version of My Fair Lady |
DOOLITTLE |
| Steak ____, popular in the mid-20th century, is similar to steak au poivre, but with a flambéed sauce |
DIANE |
| The final outcome of an endeavour |
end product |
| The great ____ is an amphibian, protected in the UK |
crested newt |
| The ideas and attitudes associated with a group of people |
ETHOS |
| The language from which English borrowed the words 31A and 43D |
PORTUGUESE |
| Thomas ____ married Catherine Parr after Henry VIII died |
SEYMOUR |
| To intimidate |
DAUNT |
| To make a humiliating retraction |
eat one's words |
| Trafalgar, Lepanto or Salamis |
sea battle |
| Valuable timber from some trees in the genus Dalbergia |
ROSEWOOD |
| ____ Scream is a rock group founded in Glasgow in 1982 |
PRIMAL |