| “A play for voices” set in Llareggub |
under milk wood |
| “Crazy” was one of US country music singer Patsy ____’s greatest hits, in 1961 |
CLINE |
| “The greatest batsman of all time”, whose Test batting average was 99.94 |
Sir Don Bradman |
| A cricketer’s garb, colloquially |
WHITES |
| A male ____ has a reddish body, blue-grey head and black and white wings |
CHAFFINCH |
| A possible birthplace for trout or turkeys |
HATCHERY |
| A real mess or muddle |
Dog's breakfast |
| A white Rhine wine |
RUDESHEIMER |
| Athenian tragedian who wrote Antigone and Electra |
SOPHOCLES |
| Australian Betty ____ is the only runner to have won Olympic gold in the 100m, 200m and 400m |
CUTHBERT |
| Baronetcy assumed by John Buchan when he was ennobled in 1935 |
TWEEDSMUIR |
| Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg and Bono, eg |
Stage names |
| Caesar’s comment about his victory at Zela in 47BC |
veni vidi vici |
| Captain of England in 2009 when they won their first Ashes Test at Lords since 1934 |
Andrew Strauss |
| Charitable organisation whose logo includes a gearwheel |
ROTARY |
| Comedian who played Inspector Raymond Fowler in the BBC series The Thin Blue Line |
Rowan Atkinson |
| Concrete causeways, built in the Second World War, linking mainland Orkney with Burray and South Ronaldsay |
Churchill Barriers |
| Dealer in textiles and apparel |
CLOTHIER |
| Easter ____, 1916 rebellion in Dublin which included the proclamation of an Irish Republic |
RISING |
| Forename created for the heroine of an Exmoor novel |
LORNA |
| Former Pakistan cricket captain, elected as the country’s president in July |
Imran Khan |
| Geoff Boycott’s signature headgear |
Panama hat |
| Headland of northwest Scotland, ten miles from Durness |
Cape Wrath |
| Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based inspector |
REBUS |
| Ill-suited as partners |
MISMATCHED |
| In ancient Greece, six ____ made a drachma |
OBOLS |
| In sporting cliché, form is temporary but ____ is permanent |
CLASS |
| In which we are all down for the count every ten years |
CENSUSES |
| Infection transmitted by ticks which may affect joints, heart or brain |
Lyme disease |
