| “’Tis not ____ business, / But must be looked to speedily and strongly” (Cymbeline) |
SLEEPY |
| “It’s better to fade away like an ____ than to burn out” (John Lennon) |
old soldier |
| “My Oberon, what ____ have I seen! / Methought I was enamoured of an ass” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) |
VISIONS |
| “O heavy ____, serious vanity, / Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms” (Romeo and Juliet) |
LIGHTNESS |
| “You neglect and ____ the desert” (TS Eliot, The Rock) |
BELITTLE |
| A 1978 film based on a 1973 farce by Jean Poiret |
La Cage aux Folles |
| A cash dispenser, or when texting, “as things stand” |
ATM |
| A disorder, typically a slight illness |
AILMENT |
| A domesticated animal; to talk continuously |
YAK |
| A hockey penalty shot, taken from a spot on the goal line |
short corner |
| A large amount of land, or often now, of public opinion |
SWATHE |
| A loud preacher, from the name given by Jesus to the sons of Zebedee |
Boanerges |
| A much more likely starting price for a Derby favourite than a Grand National one |
EVENS |
| A piano around 1.5m long, such as Steinway’s Model S |
baby grand |
| A small container for table condiments |
CRUET |
| Actress, best-known in the Forties and early Fifties, who played governor Faye Boswell in Within These Walls |
Googie Withers |
| An alternative Italian name for the Mona Lisa |
La Gioconda |
| An anthropoid ape in the genus Pongo |
ORANGUTAN |
| An instrument which accurately measures time |
CHRONOMETER |
| Armed exchanges |
GUNFIGHTS |
| Character played by Robert Englund in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films |
Freddy Krueger |
| Diaphanous |
see-through |
| Divine intervention |
Theurgy |
| Doc Holliday and Paul Revere were practicing ____ as well as figures in American history |
DENTISTS |
