'I awoke one morning and found myself famous' (Lord Byron, about the instantaneous success of ____) |
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
'Or have we eaten on the ____ / That takes the reason prisoner?' (Macbeth) |
insane root |
1993 comedy drama starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan |
Sleepless In Seattle |
A pharmacologically inactive drug |
PLACEBO |
A Sanskrit religious or philosophical text |
UPANISHAD |
Actress who played Nora Charles in The Thin Man |
Myrna Loy |
Aggressively carnivorous freshwater fish |
PIRANHA |
Arboreal lizard with spiny back |
IGUANA |
Artillery fire aimed at aircraft |
ack-ack |
Biblical figure depicted on film by Hedy Lamarr and Liz Hurley |
DELILAH |
Chef whose three UK restaurants currently have six Michelin stars between them |
Heston Blumenthal |
City where Sweden's oldest university is based |
UPPSALA |
Colloquial name for the throat |
Red Lane |
Common sense |
NOUS |
Cub Scout leader, from a Jungle Book character |
AKELA |
English rock band and the name of a 2010 arcade racing game |
BLUR |
First name of the actor who starred in The King and I and The Magnificent Seven |
YUL |
Flightless insect of the order Siphonaptera |
FLEA |
For the time being, briefly (Latin) |
pro tem |
Former heavy metal band fronted by bass guitarist Ian Kilmister |
MOTORHEAD |
Formerly, one sixteenth of a rupee |
ANNA |
Four inches |
HAND |
Francois ____ wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel |
RABELAIS |
Grammatical change to a word, often via a prefix or suffix |
INFLECTION |
Hollow lower part of a feather's shaft |
CALAMUS |
In architecture, a cross-rib used in vaulting |
LIERNE |
Informally, what happened yesterday at Windsor and Wembley |
big match |
Merchant sailing ship, such as a tea clipper |
INDIAMAN |
Nursie's real name in Blackadder II |
BERNARD |