| “Just ____ at that news and congratulate our forces” (Margaret Thatcher on the recapture of Sough Georgia in 1982) |
REJOICE |
| “The pathetic ____” is John Ruskin’s term for the attribution of human conduct or emotions to non-human things |
FALLACY |
| ’Ullo John! Gotta New ____? was Alexei Sayle’s 1984 top 20 hit |
MOTOR |
| 1979 UK No 1 Bee Gees song |
TRAGEDY |
| A medicine thought to be fraudulent |
NOSTRUM |
| A military canteen or the organisation running it |
NAAFI |
| A ____ lets a horse tow continuously when a towpath crosses a canal |
roving bridge |
| American star of 1950s and 1960s sitcoms with a version of her forename in the title |
Lucille Ball |
| Answer to “Often found in the bottom of bird cages”, the last clue in a Two Ronnies sketch about crossword solving |
GRIT |
| Channel excavated for a railway or canal |
CUT |
| Circuit used in arithmetic logic units in computers |
ADDER |
| Coach of 1924 Olympic 100m winner Harold Abrahams |
Sam Mussabini |
| Composer of six Paris and twelve London symphonies |
HAYDN |
| Displeasure, or archaically, a shadow |
UMBRAGE |
| Effect seen during solar eclipses, caused by the rugged topography of the moon’s surface |
Baily's beads |
| Expert on bushcraft and survival, first seen on BBC television in 1994 |
Ray Mears |
| Freehand representation used in school geography |
sketch map |
| German name for a late harvest wine, often sweet |
AUSLESE |
| Glenn Miller’s signature tune; a theme in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
moonlight serenade |
| In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the lover of Hermia |
LYSANDER |
| In Italy, these might be dipped into coffee |
BISCOTTI |
| In old style paper sizes, ____ was 20 inches by 25 |
ROYAL |
| In ship-building, the opposite of “hog” as a way for a hull to be stressed by its position relative to waves |
SAG |
| In zoology, something ____ lives in tiny spaces |
interstitial |
| Literary name for grassy ground |
GREENSWARD |