| 'The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us' (The Tragedy of King Lear) |
PLAGUE |
| 1963 film starring Shelley Winters, based on a Jean Genet play |
The Balcony |
| A title of Riccardo in Verdi’s opera A Masked Ball |
Earl of Warwick |
| A two-masted boat and an abbreviation of an army rank |
BRIG |
| A young herring |
SILD |
| Actress who gained fame as the sitcom character Barbara Good |
Felicity Kendal |
| Adam ____, host of The Last Leg |
HILLS |
| African country whose capital is Accra |
GHANA |
| An amphibian of the Anura order |
FROG |
| An orange roan is a type of ____ |
cocker spaniel |
| Applied retrospectively (of a law) |
ex post facto |
| Arabian kingdom thought to be modern day Yemen |
SHEBA |
| Archaic term for an unspecified day in the near future |
odd-come-shortly |
| Area of dead tissue caused by loss of blood supply |
INFARCT |
| Author of The Chronicles of Narnia |
C S Lewis |
| Author of The Moonstone |
Wilkie Collins |
| Belgian defender who joined Tottenham Hotspur in 2015 |
Toby Alderweireld |
| Bob Seger single, from the album Beautiful Loser, a less common spelling of its subject |
KATMANDU |
| Canine friend of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes |
SHEP |
| Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc |
Steve Wozniak |
| Cocktail made with vodka and orange juice |
SCREWDRIVER |
| Coined in 1975, term for a wealthy Chelsea resident |
Sloane Ranger |
| Country of northwest Africa, its capital Nouakchott |
MAURITANIA |
| Cricketers like Alan Knott, Tariq Iqbal, and Thomas Box |
wicketkeepers |
| Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine |
CIRCE |
| Familiar alternative name for a German shepherd dog |
ALSATIAN |
| Foot-operated lever |
TREADLE |
| Former teletext service of ITV and Channel 4 |
ORACLE |
| Forward part of a ship |
PROW |
| German equivalent of 'that is' |
das heisst |
