| “Brexit secretary” replaced by Stephen Barclay in November 2018 |
Dominic Raab |
| “If India is not ____, then India is not India at all” (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) |
SECULAR |
| 1974 film starring David Essex, sequel to That’ll Be the Day |
STARDUST |
| 1979 Booker Prize winner for Offshore |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
| A downloadable digital audio recording, often part of a series for which the same name may be used |
PODCAST |
| A Nazi prison camp for captured enemy officers |
OFLAG |
| A thief, especially an embezzler |
PECULATOR |
| A tradename for heat-resistant borosilicate glass |
PYREX |
| A type of rotating jump in figure skating |
LUTZ |
| Abstract imagery, often in black and white |
op art |
| Annulment of an agreement or law |
ABROGATION |
| Baroness Herbert, a granddaughter of Edward IV and first cousin of Henry VIII |
Margaret Courtenay |
| BBC2 programme for the deaf, shown since 1980, now every Wednesday, usually at 8am |
See Hear |
| Black cuckoo of tropical America |
ANI |
| Cadbury chocolate bar which is “charged with glucose” |
BOOST |
| Co-star of John Travolta in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy |
Debra Winger |
| Comic magazine character standing alongside Minnie the Minx in a Dundee statue |
Desperate Dan |
| Contracts for assets traded at an agreed price, to be delivered and paid for later |
FUTURES |
| DC ____ publish The Beano, in which Minnie the Minx appears |
THOMSON |
| Facility where you may find breakfast, coffee, wine or singles |
BAR |
| Finnish work of epic poetry which influenced Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha |
KALEVALA |
| Form of deism created by Robespierre, intended to replace Roman Catholicism in France |
Cult of the Supreme Being |
| French phrase of resignation |
c'est la guerre |
| Full name of the newspaper currently edited by George Osborne |
London Evening Standard |
| Goods bought on ____ may be returned if not satisfactory |
APPRO |
| Home ground of Everton FC |
Goodison Park |
| Hungarian Prime Minister who was secretly tried and executed by the Soviets |
Imre Nagy |
| Irish rock band whose 1996 album 1977 reached number 1 |
ASH |
| Island west of Mull, best-known for Fingal’s Cave |
STAFFA |
