| “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, ____ from giving us wordy evidence of the fact” (George Eliot) |
ABSTAINS |
| “The ____ of his morals / Engag’d him in a hundred quarrels” (Jonathan Swift) |
STRICTNESS |
| 1985 film starring a lycanthropic Michael J Fox |
Teen Wolf |
| American actor who won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood |
Martin Landau |
| Angry Young Man John Braine’s 1957 debut novel |
Room At The Top |
| Breed of dog such as Blue Peter’s Shep |
border collie |
| Castries is the capital of this island state |
Saint Lucia |
| Chemist who, in 1991, became Britain’s first astronaut |
Helen Sharman |
| Collection of writings central to Jewish law |
TALMUD |
| Conductors used to make contacts in circuits |
ELECTRODES |
| Country bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somaliland |
DJIBOUTI |
| Darwin sailed on this ship in his first research voyage |
BEAGLE |
| Decisive battle of the first English Civil War |
NASEBY |
| Director and male star of Dances with Wolves |
Kevin Costner |
| Drummer who plays on the song Seven Nation Army |
Meg White |
| Egyptian deity depicted with the head of a jackal |
ANUBIS |
| English county whose highest peak is Shining Tor |
CHESHIRE |
| Fairy tale character who saves her brother by pushing a witch into an oven |
GRETEL |
| Film adaptation of a Stephen King novel in which Cathy Bates plays James Caan’s number one fan |
MISERY |
| Flat-bodied parasite that can grow to fifty feet long |
TAPEWORM |
| Follow-up to the 1989 album The Stone Roses |
Second Coming |
| German chemist Walther ____’s heat theorem is a partial statement of the third law of thermodynamics and won him a 1920 Nobel prize |
NERNST |
| Gold coin featuring the likeness of the statesman whose actions were one cause of the Second Boer War |
KRUGERRAND |
| In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a very loud rock band fronted by Hotblack Desiato |
disaster area |