“An ____ nation has no friends. The German people seriously worry me.” (Konrad Adenauer) |
UNSTEADY |
“Creamy neutral paint colours are back — just don’t call it ____” (Sunday Times headline, 2023) |
MAGNOLIA |
“He who has ____ his fears will truly be free” (Aristotle) |
OVERCOME |
“It’s been ____ for the roses” (George Jones) |
A Good Year |
“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, ____, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public” |
SPITEFUL |
1965 Beatles single; railway-based board game |
ticket to ride |
1979 Fleetwood Mac album that followed Rumours |
TUSK |
1982 George Thorogood song used in Terminator 2 |
Bad To The Bone |
1997 courtroom drama film based on a John Grisham book |
The Rainmaker |
A name used for God in Hebrew scripture |
ELOHIM |
Actress who sounds as if she could have been perfect for a certain role in the film The Italian Job? |
Minnie Driver |
Another name for Old English |
Anglo-Saxon |
Another name of Pythia, prophetess linked to Apollo |
oracle of Delphi |
Anuran who starred with Michael Caine and Tim Curry in film adaptations of literary classics |
KERMIT |
Arms which can be pump-action or double-barrelled |
SHOTGUNS |
Artist who painted The Number of the Beast is 666 |
william blake |
Band whose singer wore an oversized business suit during the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense |
Talking Heads |
Early writing system using a wedge-shaped stylus |
CUNEIFORM |
Fruits which are used in Hawaiian pizza toppings |
PINEAPPLES |
Home of Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1948-90 |
herstmonceux |
In Greek myth, Aphrodite’s handsome mortal lover |
ADONIS |
In the Jewish (religious) calendar, the year’s last month |
ADAR |
Informal name for Aurora Borealis |
northern lights |
Informal name for Indiana |
Hoosier State |