Linked fetters binding a prisoner’s wrists or ankles |
SHACKLE |
Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 |
Khyber Pass |
Palace which became a museum in the French Revolution |
LOUVRE |
Part of Scotland known in Gaelic as Na h-Eileanan Siar |
outer hebrides |
Piece of baggage comprising two equal-sized compartments hinged together |
gladstone bag |
Powder from ___ beans is used as a substitute for chocolate |
CAROB |
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, born Charles Olden |
Ted Ray |
Sailing craft competing in events like the America’s Cup |
Racing yacht |
Samuel Pepys’s ending for some of his diary entries |
And so to bed |
Satirical magazine whose offices in Paris were attacked by two Islamist gunmen in 2015 |
Charlie Hebdo |
Sets of island shelving in self-service stores |
GONDOLAS |
Since June 28, the host of Countdown on Channel 4 |
Anne Robinson |
The Bletchley Park codebreaker on the new £50 note |
Alan Turing |
The primary orbital vehicle being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company |
STARSHIP |
The third brightest star in the sky, visible only from the southern hemisphere |
alpha centauri |
The ____ was a jazz-influenced secular cantata by Constant Lambert, first performed in 1927 |
Rio Grande |
Type of brandy produced in Gascony |
ARMAGNAC |
Until 1974, senior county council members, elected by other councillors |
ALDERMEN |
Vauxhall car which replaced the Wyvern model in 1957 |
VICTOR |
Where Gray probably heard the “knell of parting day” |
Stoke Poges |
Without harm, loss or penalty |
scot free |
____ or grockle, Cornish dialect name for a holidaymaker |
EMMET |