| “I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an ____” (The Tempest) |
APPLE |
| “Old men only ____ for people to ask them to talk” (Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine) |
lie in wait |
| “Out in the street […] the police with their tommy-guns ____ to and fro” (George Orwell on totalitarianism) |
PROWL |
| “Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness! / Rival in crime and falsehood, ____ all / The wanton horrors of her bloody play” (Shelley) |
APING |
| “____ by Sir Walter Scott” is an anagram of “A novel by a Scottish writer” |
IVANHOE |
| 480 grains |
OUNCE |
| A negatively charged particle |
ELECTRON |
| A whole number |
INTEGER |
| A ____ baby is a problem aggravated by attempts to solve it |
TAR |
| Abdullah ____, South African composer once known as Dollar Brand |
IBRAHIM |
| Actress who played the lead in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation |
Lillian Gish |
| Actress who was Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques sketches |
Celia Imrie |
| Afrikaans word meaning infantrymen, pedestrians, or young locusts |
voetgangers |
| American game fish with two musical terms in its name |
rock bass |
| As a result of his European Recovery Plan, George Marshall was the only US ____ to receive the Nobel peace prize |
army general |
| Biblical prophet whose name means “God strengthens” |
EZEKIEL |
| Common last movement of a sonata or concerto |
RONDO |
| Derogatory slang term for a farm worker |
Swede-basher |
| Earache |
OTALGIA |
| Feargal Sharkey once fronted the ____ |
UNDERTONES |
| Film noir’s first female director (The Hitch-Hiker, 1953) |
Ida Lupino |
| French city with the Rhine’s second-largest river port |
STRASBOURG |
| From his hair colour, one of two nicknames for the Italian Mannerist painter Giovanni Batista di Jacopo |
Il Rosso |
| Iced tea and lemonade drink named after a US golfer |
Arnold Palmer |
