| “Him the Almighty Power / Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ____ sky” (Paradise Lost) |
ETHEREAL |
| “I am ____ your contempt for my character and opinions, sir” (George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman) |
proud of |
| “It is not sin that kills the soul, but ____” (16th-century satirist and moralist Bishop Hall) |
IMPENITENCE |
| 1922 Nobel physics laureate, for work on “the structure of atoms and […] the radiation emanating from them” |
niels bohr |
| 1992 Formula One world champion |
Nigel Mansell |
| A beard or bristle of barley |
AWN |
| A former technique of mixing powdered gold with mercury to gild cheap metal, now replaced by safer alternatives |
ORMOLU |
| A projecting cantilevered window |
ORIEL |
| A spectre, or an idealised image |
EIDOLON |
| An ace in golf |
hole in one |
| Animated TV series set in Bikini Bottom |
SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Bella Donna was a solo album by Fleetwood Mac’s ____ |
Stevie Nicks |
| Captain ____ co-founded the punk band the Damned |
SENSIBLE |
| Contractually hired |
CHARTERED |
| France’s Camargue region is part of the ____ delta |
RHONE |
| Group member who thinks their presence is irrelevant |
spare part |
| Groups of eight |
OCTADS |
| Hindi for “goddess”, also used after a Hindu woman’s first name as a form of respect |
DEVI |
| In 2015, Nigel ____ became the second Welsh referee of a rugby union world cup final |
OWENS |
| In electrical engineering, the opposition to alternating current in a circuit |
IMPEDANCE |
| In Greek myth, the beloved of Eros |
PSYCHE |
| In need of 28A |
UNEXCITED |
| Informally in Australia, a mature marsupial |
old man roo |
| Informally in Australia, an early night is “only a ____” |
PUP |