| “Droopy awnings are out and only spirit-level precision works” (BBC2’s description of its ____ of the Year programmes shown in 2017) |
CARAVANNER |
| “I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was ____ with the character of the people” (Margaret Thatcher) |
at odds |
| “Mobility as a service” provider, launched in the US in 2011 |
UBER |
| “Take note, take note, O world! / To be ____ and honest is not safe” (Iago in Othello) |
DIRECT |
| “The miserable have ____ medicine / But only hope” (Claudio in Measure for Measure) |
no other |
| 1,000,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
QUADRILLION |
| 1970s TV show for children, in which the main characters were Penelope Arbuckle and a local witch |
Lizzie Dripping |
| A device used for leaving an aeroplane; informally, another such device |
CHUTE |
| A military slang alternative to “mufti” |
CIVVIES |
| A military task, or the group assigned to carry it out |
DETAIL |
| A premolar tooth has buccal and lingual ____s |
CUSP |
| A smell that’s usually bad |
ODOUR |
| A Winter Paralympics Super-G contestant may be a ____ |
monoskier |
| Another name for wampum |
shell money |
| Capital of the former Duchy of Lorraine |
NANCY |
| Chess piece often given a relative value of five points, a pawn being worth one |
ROOK |
| Device used to transmit speech in a noisy environment |
throat microphone |
| Dinnerladies canteen manager, played by Andrew Dunn |
Tony Martin |
| Exercise system using very slow controlled movements |
t'ai chi |
| Fast ships used to enforce customs regulations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries |
revenue cutters |
| From the Greek for “places”, literary themes or formulae |
topoi |
| Greek island, part of a British protectorate, 1815-64 |
CORFU |
| Having many offspring, or showing love towards them |
philoprogenitive |
| Hawaii’s second largest island; trickster in Polynesian myth |
MAUI |
