| In Kantian philosophy, a sense of direct perception |
anschauung |
| Letters which replaced ROMA on coins in about AUC 674 |
SPQR |
| Members of a denomination which included the first people to be called Protestants |
LUTHERANS |
| Month called Sextilis in the original version of the Roman calendar |
AUGUST |
| Music award once won but declined by Sinead O’Connor |
GRAMMY |
| Object depicted as being thrown in Athenian sculptor Myron’s best known work |
DISCUS |
| Of wood, being dense or compact in nature |
close-grained |
| Part of north Africa formerly famed for piracy |
Barbary Coast |
| People who are very passionate about a cause |
FIREBRANDS |
| River marking the Laotian border with Myanmar |
MEKONG |
| Roy Orbison song lip-synched to by Dean Stockwell in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet |
In Dreams |
| Soul singer who released Your Love is King in 1984 |
SADE |
| Star of the 1993 comedy film Mrs Doubtfire |
Robin Williams |
| Steinbeck work that takes its title from a Burns poem |
of mice and men |
| Street furniture item which in a few cases has been painted gold rather than red since 2012 |
POSTBOX |
| Sugar which shares its name with a river in Guyana |
DEMERARA |
| Swedish author who created Pippi Longstocking |
Astrid Lindgren |
| Term for communists involved in the party machine |
APPARATCHIKS |
| The beginning of Act 1 |
curtain up |
| The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 took place in this body of water |
Gulf of Mexico |
| Toy involved in a 1950s craze; a potato and maize crisp |
hula hoop |
| Wading birds with varieties such as the glossy, hermit and sacred |
IBISES |
| Weasel-like animals formerly called foulmarts |
POLECATS |
| What the H of the particle-smashing LHC stands for |
HADRON |
