| “On the ____” means in a state of alertness |
qui vive |
| 12:50 |
ten to one |
| 1983 film directed by and starring Barbra Streisand |
YENTL |
| A cold leek and potato soup |
VICHYSSOISE |
| A family tree |
STEMMA |
| Actress who starred alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan |
Rosanna Arquette |
| After Paris (1924) and London (1948), the third European city to host the summer Olympics for a second time |
ATHENS |
| Another name for a woodchuck |
GROUNDHOG |
| Antipodean politician who, at 37, became the world’s youngest female head of government |
Jacinda Ardern |
| As a musical instruction, becoming slower, and often louder too |
ALLARGANDO |
| Cereal and other crop disease marked by powdery black spores |
SMUT |
| City in Washington state which hosted Expo ’74, the first environmentally themed world’s fair |
SPOKANE |
| Disease caused by thiamine deficiency |
BERIBERI |
| Elizabeth Allen is “The ____” in a series of four novels by Enid Blyton |
Naughtiest Girl |
| English equivalent of the Italian zucchero |
SUGAR |
| Four of the ten tracks on this Lightning Seeds album were issued as singles |
JOLLIFICATION |
| Gabriel and Raphael, for example |
ARCHANGELS |
| Game show featured in the 1992 film White Men Can’t Jump |
JEOPARDY |
| Grange Hill character, played by Todd Carty, who was given his own spin-off series |
Tucker Jenkins |
| In fiction, Melville’s Captain Ahab or Dickens’s Silas Wegg |
AMPUTEE |
| In old military slang, a kit inspection |
rag-fair |
| Jazz musician called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington |
oscar peterson |
| Largest island of the Inner Hebrides |
SKYE |
| Lover of Hiawatha in Longfellow’s epic poem |
MINNEHAHA |