Pigment of various colours from yellow to brown |
OCHRE |
Portable free-reed organs |
ACCORDIONS |
Practically essential part of a sentence |
noun phrase |
Remarkable people or things |
PHENOMENA |
Resort formerly promoted as the “suntrap of the south” |
EASTBOURNE |
SI unit of electromotive force |
VOLT |
Simon Pegg’s co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul |
Nick Frost |
Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear |
toe-in |
Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988 |
table tennis |
The 200th UK No 1 single, in 1965 |
HELP |
The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____ |
OFFICE |
The sequel to Saturday Night Fever |
Staying Alive |
The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight |
NEEDLES |
Theatres of ancient Greece and Rome |
ODEONS |
To date, the only female Prime Minister of France |
Edith Cresson |
To work too hard |
overdo it |
Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001 |
VS Naipaul |
UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht |
Deal or No Deal |
What Anthony Burgess called “the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers […] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight” |
SLANG |
____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board |
Vine Street |
____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term “knitwear” |
PRINGLE |
____ plains are created by long-term deposition of sediment by rivers |
ALLUVIAL |
____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice |
TIGER |
____’s lines in Do They Know It’s Christmas began “But say a prayer” |
George Michael |