| “At the present moment, the whole fleet is ____” (Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious broadcast) |
lit up |
| 1978 arcade game featuring descending aliens |
space invaders |
| A person currently holding an office |
INCUMBENT |
| Actor who won Tony awards playing King Mongkut |
Yul Brynner |
| Animal with varieties such as blue, white and lemon |
SHARK |
| Animal with varieties such as death, night and puff |
ADDER |
| Another name for the white poplar |
ABELE |
| Blackthorn fruit often used to make flavoured gin |
SLOE |
| Borough in which Coney Island is located |
BROOKLYN |
| Building that houses the Household Cavalry Museum |
Horse Guards |
| Capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province |
LAHORE |
| City that had the world’s tallest building, 1975-2007 |
TORONTO |
| Common language of the 5th-century BC Persian empire |
ARAMAIC |
| Coral bank where Captain Cook’s ship ran aground in 1770 |
Endeavour Reef |
| Country in which Chernobyl is found |
UKRAINE |
| Exclamation of surprise probably derived from a US journalist and sport promoter’s name |
Gordon Bennett |
| Football stadium that is home to Derby County |
Pride Park |
| Form of exhibitionism first seen in the mid-1970s |
STREAK |
| Former Tory MP who became leader of Change UK |
Anna Soubry |
| French general, a national hero in one world war, seen as a traitor in another |
PETAIN |
| In the wireless telegraphy era, a glass tube inside which iron filings clinging together indicated a radio signal |
COHERER |
| Italian composer who spent most of his life in France and is best-known for the opera Médée |
CHERUBINI |
| Jail where Oscar Wilde was imprisoned, 1895-97 |
READING |
| James Ducat’s job on the Flannan Isles until he and his colleagues disappeared in 1900 |
lighthouse keeper |
| Job in which Chuck Yeager broke a world record twice |
test pilot |
