| “I’ve got a problem with my legs, they just can’t walk past a ____” (Boxer Ricky Hatton) |
CHIPPY |
| 1970 Beatles single on which John Lennon played a six-string bass |
The Long and Winding Road |
| 1980s TV show featuring detectives Crockett and Tubbs |
Miami Vice |
| A mild weakness or idiosyncrasy |
FOIBLE |
| A newspaper’s financial news department |
city desk |
| A prerogative of mercy in the UK |
royal pardon |
| A teacher of equestrianism |
riding master |
| Alfredo ____ was the first footballer to win a second Ballon d’Or, in 1959 |
Di Stefano |
| America’s opponents in the Ryder Cup |
Team Europe |
| Ancient Greek sea god who could change his own shape |
PROTEUS |
| Asperger’s syndrome is one form of this condition |
AUTISM |
| Bobby ____ wrote My 60 Memorable Games |
FISCHER |
| Brideshead Revisited character with a teddy bear called Aloysius |
Sebastian Flyte |
| Cartoon character with a noted Brooklyn accent |
Bugs Bunny |
| Cattle very similar to (or crossed with) Friesians |
HOLSTEINS |
| Commercially disastrous 1987 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty |
ISHTAR |
| Compulsory force or threat |
DURESS |
| Geri Halliwell’s 1990s stage name |
Ginger Spice |
| Imaginary line which crosses a country named after it |
EQUATOR |
| In 1957 ____ became the first alcoholic drink advertised on British TV |
BABYCHAM |
| In Doctor Who, the original home of the Time Lords |
gallifrey |
| Island whose capital is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas |
Tristan da Cunha |
| Jaime ____ was a Filipino cardinal who participated in inevitable jokes about his name |
SIN |
| Jessup’s outburst to Kaffee in A Few Good Men |
You can't handle the truth |