| “A poem is never finished, only ____” (WH Auden paraphrasing French poet Paul Valéry) |
ABANDONED |
| “Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have ____, will march” (Book of The Damned, Charles Fort) |
EXHUMED |
| “Corruption, the most ____ symptom of constitutional liberty” (Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) |
INFALLIBLE |
| “If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to ____ on the product” (Steve Jobs) |
SKIMP |
| “Lather, ____” is a colloquial indication of a tiresomely predictable procedure |
rinse repeat |
| “The media’s the most powerful ____ on earth” (Malcolm X) |
ENTITY |
| 'While I breathe,I hope' (Latin) |
dum spero spiro |
| A demon, often in animal form, attending a witch |
familiar spirit |
| Actor who came to prominence as a cowboy hitchhiker in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise |
Brad Pitt |
| Ancient Greek site of the temple of Diana |
EPHESUS |
| Anglo-Indian dish in which the British contributions are fish and hard-boiled eggs |
KEDGEREE |
| Author of The Third Man |
Graham Greene |
| Belgian winner of the 2021 Wimbledon women’s doubles, with Hsieh Su-wei |
Elise Mertens |
| Carrot, cassava, turnip or yam |
root vegetable |
| Ceramic pieces with a metallic glaze |
LUSTREWARE |
| Chiliad is a Greek-based word for ____ things |
one thousand |
| Cistercian ruin in the North York Moors national park |
Rievaulx Abbey |
| Colloquially, a very unreasonable hour |
stupid o'clock |
| Derek ____ starred in the 1976 BBC series I, Claudius |
JACOBI |
| Facial features of a “bombing” trend which began in the 2000s |
Googly eyes |
| Flowering plant sometimes called sword lily |
GLADIOLUS |
| German sweet bread traditionally eaten at Christmas |
STOLLEN |
| Greek letter between rho and tau |
SIGMA |
| Having no gills |
abranchial |
