| “A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an ____ political cartoon look like?’” (Salman Rushdie) |
INOFFENSIVE |
| “Extinct” order of fish, until an Indian Ocean find in 1938 |
COELACANTH |
| “They blame their tools: why did the carpenter make the bed so badly, if he ____?” (Galen) |
was any good |
| “____ me, my sweet ____able you” (Ira Gershwin) |
EMBRACE |
| 1/1 |
EVENS |
| A design, especially one used as part of a pattern |
MOTIF |
| A former French title for a clergyman |
ABBE |
| A photon books in at a hotel. Receptionist: Do you have any luggage? Photon: No, I’m ____ |
travelling light |
| According to EB White, someone who “knows more about writing than writers do, but who has escaped the terrible desire to write” |
EDITOR |
| According to its founder, “a school of citizenship through woodcraft” |
SCOUTING |
| An elevated but static trot in dressage |
piaffe |
| An ideal now abandoned at the top level of most sports |
Amateurism |
| An old-fashioned sweet pudding; insincere compliments |
FLUMMERY |
| Animal with both beaded and bearded varieties |
LIZARD |
| As ____, Nicholas Breakspear was the only English pope |
Adrian IV |
| Austrian physicist ____ described one of the best-known effects in science |
Christian Doppler |
| Bacterium which is spherical or nearly so |
Coccus |
| Ban (someone) from participation in church sacraments |
EXCOMMUNICATE |
| BBC Two documentary series, aired 1965-82, about a wide range of people |
Man Alive |
| Cleaning or purifying process using vapour |
FUMIGATION |
| Clothing etc, traditionally collected by a bride for marriage |
TROUSSEAU |
| Daisy Ashford wrote The ____ when she was 5D, and it was mostly unchanged when published 28 years later |
Young Visiters |
| Distilling apparatus formerly used by alchemists |
ALEMBIC |
| French post-impressionist, the “father of modern art” |
Paul Cezanne |
| Hertfordshire town with a Natural History Museum originally created by Lionel Walter (2nd Baron) Rothschild |
TRING |
