| '… in Idleness alone is there perpetual ____' (Thomas Carlyle) |
DESPAIR |
| 'Nouns of number, or multitude, such as ____, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons […] and the like' (William Cobbett) |
MOB |
| 1973 Eagles album |
DESPERADO |
| 1973 film whose tagline is 'Where were you in '62?' |
American Graffiti |
| 1998 solo album by Level 42’s Mark King |
One Man |
| 2012 disaster/thriller film about an earthquake in Chile |
AFTERSHOCK |
| A censorious critic, named after a Greek grammarian |
zoilist |
| A horseman or mounted knight |
CHEVALIER |
| A vessel, a gun, or a substance used by builders |
MORTAR |
| An easting or northing on an Ordnance Survey map |
COORDINATE |
| Annual award administered by New York's Columbia University |
Pulitzer Prize |
| Another name for a choker |
NECKLET |
| Author of Whisky Galore and co-founder of the Scottish National Party |
Compton Mackenzie |
| Baseball fielding position between second and third base |
SHORTSTOP |
| Blood poisoning |
SEPTICAEMIA |
| Bonnie Tyler’s No 1 single of 1983 |
Total Eclipse of the Heart |
| Character played by Sophie Marceau in The World Is Not Enough |
Elektra King |
| City founded as Eboracum |
YORK |
| Comedian who scored +28 on her QI debut in 2013 |
Sara Pascoe |
| Common introduction to toast |
here's to |
| Device which regulates a machine's supply of fuel or water |
GOVERNOR |
| East Midlands county which contains only two towns |
RUTLAND |
| Editor of the patriotic magazine John Bull |
Horatio Bottomley |
| Egyptian goddess of fertility |
ISIS |
| Elaborate 18th-century decorative style |
ROCOCO |
| European colour matching system |
RAL |
| Film whose villain is Francisco Scaramanga |
The Man With The Golden Gun |
| Follower of the doctrine that the state is supreme in ecclesiastical matters |
ERASTIAN |
| Former chemical company acquired by AkzoNobel |
ICI |