| “Ba, pueritia, with a horn ____” (Love’s Labour’s Lost) |
ADDED |
| “Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs / Better than all the ____ an’s and ifs” (Robert Frost) |
STALEMATE |
| 1990s ITV paranormal documentary series hosted by Michael Aspel |
Strange but True |
| A member of the warrior Hindu caste |
KSHATRIYA |
| Actress who played novelist Joan Wilder in the 1984 film Romancing the Stone |
Kathleen Turner |
| Adhesive containing cyanoacrylates or similar polymers |
SUPERGLUE |
| Agatha Christie novel in which the first murder victim is drowned in an apple-bobbing tub |
Hallowe'en Party |
| American poet who became a British citizen in 1927 |
T S Eliot |
| Archaic (but logical) term meaning most well-behaved |
ruliest |
| Australian winner of the Tour de France in 2011 |
Cadel Evans |
| Buckinghamshire village believed to have the churchyard in which Gray’s Elegy was written |
Stoke Poges |
| Colour named after the wildflower mallow |
MAUVE |
| Come clean |
own up |
| Counterbalance; a printing method |
OFFSET |
| David Lammy has been the MP for ____ since 2000 |
TOTTENHAM |
| Dravidian language of Sri Lanka and southern India |
TAMIL |
| Fate or destiny, a word borrowed from Turkish |
KISMET |
| Final software testing phase, possibly not actually done |
GAMMA |
| Greek scientist associated with the cry “Eureka!” |
ARCHIMEDES |
| Have the courage to take on something difficult |
man up |
| If an animal with antlers is female, it must be a ____ |
REINDEER |
| In colonial India, a ____ wallah operated a large suspended fan |
PUNKAH |
| In this crossword we sometimes ____ quotations by using them as clues |
repurpose |
| Informally, people like William Hague and Dido Harding |
Tory peers |
