| “Boy, boy, crazy boy, / Get ____, boy!” (West Side Story lyrics) |
COOL |
| “Ultimo” used to mean “of the ____” in business letters |
last month |
| A bird that cannot yet fly |
NESTLING |
| A foreign country, according to LP Hartley |
the past |
| A form of vitamin B3 |
NIACIN |
| A literary souvenir |
signed copy |
| A major landmark in this southeast London district is a large fibreglass feline |
Catford |
| A word that starts the usual name of three different countries |
UNITED |
| According to Monty Python, Martin ____ could “think you under the table” |
HEIDEGGER |
| Alternative to “firn” as a name for snow on its way to becoming glacier ice |
NEVE |
| An old alternative to “medicine”, as both healing and drugs |
PHYSIC |
| An ____ novel is a series of documents, especially letters |
EPISTOLARY |
| Boadicea’s tribe |
ICENI |
| Brief statement, often surprising or satirical |
EPIGRAM |
| British comedian compared to Norman Wisdom, or the first man to run 400m in less than 44 seconds |
Lee Evans |
| Calcium carbonate hanging from a limestone cave roof |
STALACTITE |
| Canaan, according to the Old Testament |
the promised land |
| Determine the concentration a substance in a solution by volume measurement |
TITRATE |
| Edmonton is the capital of this Canadian province |
ALBERTA |
| England’s traditional heraldic emblem |
Tudor rose |
| Foodstuff originally made in Normandy |
Camembert cheese |
| Game of physical agility, first sold in the 1960s |
TWISTER |
| Good example of a particular characteristic |
EPITOME |
| Howard Land played The Onedin Line’s Captain ____ on TV |
BAINES |
| In The Full Monty, a dance move was likened to the Arsenal ____ |
offside trap |
| Instrument that twice answers the celesta at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy |
bass clarinet |
| Island reached by ferry from Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull |
IONA |
| Johnny Depp made his film debut in this 1984 American slasher movie |
A Nightmare On Elm Street |
| Lady Godiva’s husband |
LEOFRIC |
| Likely to become an earworm |
CATCHY |