A lament or slow musical piece, from a type of Ukrainian folk music |
DUMKA |
A Norse bard |
SKALD |
A sausage originally made in Bologna |
MORTADELLA |
A traditional “tagging” game of school playgrounds |
British Bulldog |
Abnormally low count of a white blood cell |
neutropenia |
Amazon’s virtual assistant, since November 2014 |
ALEXA |
Amelia ____ was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic |
EARHART |
American sports league in which the Toronto Raptors are the only Canadian team |
NBA |
Any plant of the Pisum genus |
PEA |
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong |
Murphy's Law |
Author of Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Author who said “What is an adult? A child blown up by age” |
Simone de Beauvoir |
Bowmore is on the coast of this Islay sea inlet |
Loch Indaal |
Capital city of Belarus |
MINSK |
Cause something to happen suddenly |
touch off |
Charity whose motto is “Giving nature a home” |
rspb |
Chinese rice porridge |
CONGEE |
Chris ____ won at least one grand slam singles title for 13 years in succession |
EVERT |
F1 driver who became the youngest ever world champion in 1972 |
Emerson Fittipaldi |
Final name of a former game show hosted by Michael Barrymore |
Strike It Rich |
Former game show based on noughts and crosses |
Celebrity Squares |
Former Haitian president known as Baby Doc |
Jean-Claude Duvalier |
Greek letter which means “sum” in maths |
SIGMA |
Host of 23 Down, in two stints, for approximately nine years |
Bob Monkhouse |
Humulus lupulus, the fruit clusters of which are used in beer-making |
HOP |
In school slang, to be a lookout |
keep cave |
Inflammation of the optic disc |
papillitis |
Knead clay for use in making pottery |
PUG |
Main residence of French kings in the century before the revolution |
Palace of Versailles |