Lincolnshire village; stage name of stand-up comedian and musician James Rogers |
Boothby Graffoe |
Lord Sepulchrave, Steerpike and Barquentine appear in this fantasy fiction series |
GORMENGHAST |
Mass of lymphoid tissue at either side of the back of the throat |
palatine tonsil |
Membrane enveloping the lungs |
PLEURA |
Of protesters, contained in an enclosed area |
kettled |
Real name of 3 Down and location of 4 Down |
Royston Vasey |
Red (occasionally white) wine of northern Spain |
RIOJA |
Serbia’s capital |
BELGRADE |
Series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper |
Leatherstocking Tales |
Settlers in southern Britain in the late 4th century |
JUTES |
Small harpsichord with obliquely set strings |
SPINET |
South African opener, the only batsman to carry his bat in two test matches in the same calendar year |
Dean Elgar |
Statesman imprisoned by Charles I for advocating parliamentary rights |
Sir John Eliot |
The Battle of Laing’s ____ took place in the first Boer war |
NEK |
The best-selling type of salad dressing in the US since 1992 |
RANCH |
The first contestant to leave the 2018 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! |
Noel Edmonds |
The second section of this Alexander Pope poem begins “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan” |
An Essay On Man |
The ____ of Cats — a difficult matter according to a TS Eliot poem |
NAMING |
The ____ virus causes a fever, endemic in west Africa |
LASSA |
To make Saxon blue dye, dissolve ____ in concentrated sulphuric acid |
INDIGO |
Tradename for hydrocarbon formerly used in refrigeration |
FREON |
TV series featuring the members of a comedy troupe of the same name, formed in 1995 |
The League Of Gentlemen |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32, and co-founder of an institute which is now part of a Pittsburgh university |
Andrew Mellon |
____ Blofeld, an arch-enemy of James Bond |
ERNST |