| “‘Humour’, he said, ‘is ____ chaos remembered in tranquility’” (James Thurber) |
EMOTIONAL |
| “A ____ only, and a gentleman / Which I have sometime known” (All’s Well That Ends Well) |
SERVANT |
| “One of God's own prototypes. […] Too ____ to live, and too rare to die.” (Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) |
WEIRD |
| “She said, why don’t we both just ____ tonight” (50 Ways to Leave Your Lover) |
sleep on it |
| A device very likely to be used by long-distance sailors |
DESALINATOR |
| A guaranteed remedy, medically or figuratively |
magic bullet |
| A law not enforced or no longer observed |
dead letter |
| A native of a mountainous landlocked African country |
RWANDAN |
| A pair of spectacles on a handle, used mainly by women when conventional ones were seen as unattractive |
LORGNETTE |
| A pedestrian holidaymaker staying at several locations |
HOSTELLER |
| A perfect example (Latin) |
ne plus ultra |
| Actor who played the title role in Scrooge |
Alastair Sim |
| Actress who won Oscars for her roles in La La Land and Poor Things |
Emma Stone |
| An extemporary line |
ad-lib |
| An ordnance depot |
ARSENAL |
| Cocktail of gin, sweet vermouth and Campari |
NEGRONI |
| Code inserted into software that sets off malicious action under particular conditions |
logic bomb |
| Composer who was Wagner’s father-in-law |
LISZT |
| Discomfort caused by contraction of the uterus following childbirth |
afterpains |
| Edmond Dantès in the title of a Dumas novel |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
| English captain in 1980s cricket and Shakespeare’s Henry V |
GOWER |
| English title of the Albert Camus novel La Chute |
The Fall |
| Existing at an earlier time than (something) |
PREDATING |
| First sign of the zodiac |
ARIES |
