| “… her nostrils, so ____ of caressing breezes and amorous scents …” (Madame Bovary) |
GLUTTONOUS |
| “Please ____” is an example of a pleonasm |
RSVP |
| 1932 comic novel featuring several members of the Starkadder family |
cold comfort farm |
| 1967 comedy film starring Dean Martin, third of the four Matt Helm films |
The Ambushers |
| A circular fort built for coastal defence |
martello tower |
| A fashionable dressmaker or milliner |
MODISTE |
| A meadow grass with brushlike spikes |
FOXTAIL |
| A product of photosynthesis |
GLUCOSE |
| A Scottish diminutive of Janet |
JESSIE |
| A wetting agent |
surfactant |
| Actor best known for his sitcom role as Battery Sergeant Major Williams |
Windsor Davies |
| American cigarette manufacturer which was a sponsor of the 1982 Fifa World Cup |
WINSTON |
| Book which is often called the first modern novel |
Don Quixote |
| British composer whose music “combines instant popular appeal with the most visionary raptus” (Oxford Companion to Music) |
Sir Edward Elgar |
| Comedian whose recurring characters included Cosmo Smallpiece |
Les Dawson |
| County town where Izaak Walton, author of the The Compleat Angler, was born |
STAFFORD |
| Defenders of this Texan mission were killed in an 1836 siege |
ALAMO |
| Dutch footballer who scored 144 goals for Arsenal and Manchester United |
Robin Van Persie |
| Epidemic which reached England in 1348 |
Black Death |
| Gems which have been polished but not faceted |
cabochons |
| Greek island which gives its name to a fortified dessert wine |
SAMOS |
| Group founded in 1977 and still fronted by Victor Willis |
Village People |
| Having a brownish pale yellow hue |
straw-coloured |
| In anatomy, a decussation or intercrossing |
CHIASMA |
