| “Damn braces: ____ relaxes” (Blake, Proverbs of Hell) |
BLESS |
| “Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ____ sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority” (Letitia Landon) |
ill-used |
| “____ and means” is taxation or other government fund-raising |
WAYS |
| 1917 battle also called the third battle of Ypres |
PASSCHENDAELE |
| 1978 sitcom which was a spin-off from Porridge |
Going Straight |
| A (usually wooden) jigsaw piece in a recognisable shape, often related to the picture |
WHIMSY |
| A board next to a sink, or a rack placed on it |
DRAINER |
| After the Second World War, clothes were ____ in 1949 |
derationed |
| Among the lost tribes of Israel, ____ and Manasseh formed the House of Joseph |
EPHRAIM |
| Another name for the slide guitar playing style |
BOTTLENECK |
| Antipodean community events with barbecued meat |
sausage sizzles |
| Arizona’s ___ reservation is surrounded by the Navajo one |
HOPI |
| Arthur Lasenby ____, a former draper’s apprentice, founded a Regent Street shop in 1875 |
LIBERTY |
| Arts programme in the post-Newsnight “graveyard slot” on BBC2 in the early 1990s |
The Late Show |
| Band whose only UK No 1 was I Owe You Nothing in 1988 |
BROS |
| BBC radio show (1956-88) in which convoluted explanations of phrases became a notable feature |
my word |
| Brand name for gin and cigarettes in Orwell’s 1984 |
VICTORY |
| Damien Thorn is killed in Omen III: ____ |
The Final Conflict |
| Disease which probably killed over 100 million people in 14th-century Europe |
bubonic plague |
| Dung beetles and fish eagles ____ what they eat |
are named after |
| Ecaterina ____, of Romania, won four gymnastics gold medals at the 1984 Olympics |
szabo |
| In an uninspired way |
pedestrianly |
| In economics, graphs showing how prices affect sales |
demand curves |
| In poetry, the reverse of an iamb |
TROCHEE |
| In psychiatry, a continual feeling of tiredness |
anergia |
