| “A livelier ____ twinkles in the grass, / A purer sapphire melts into the sea” (Tennyson, in Maud) |
EMERALD |
| “Nowhere probably is there […] worse ____, than in a churchyard” (Benjamin Jowett) |
TASTE |
| “Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____” (Devil’s Dictionary) |
UNKNOWABLE |
| A block of shares |
TRANCHE |
| African-American spiritual based on 2 Kings ii:11 |
swing low sweet chariot |
| An old name for a pulpit or lectern |
AMBO |
| Archaically, to bury a corpse |
INEARTH |
| AV connector often called Péritel in France |
SCART |
| Batman’s real surname |
WAYNE |
| Canadian province which is home to Banff National Park |
ALBERTA |
| Capital city known locally as Baile Átha Cliath |
DUBLIN |
| Cedric Errol is the titular character of this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| Chingachgook and Uncas in an 1826 US novel title |
The Last of the Mohicans |
| Colloquially, the jack in bowls |
KITTY |
| Docile but venomous Asian snake with distinctive black and gold markings |
banded krait |
| Dutch cheese which can be kept for a very long time |
EDAM |
| First film in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War trilogy |
PLATOON |
| Form of limestone visible in cliffs at the Cinque Port Hythe |
Kentish rag |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last novel |
The Brothers Karamazov |
| German sausage, often served with sauerkraut |
BRATWURST |
| Greek island which was the birthplace of Pythagoras |
SAMOS |
| Historical region now mostly within Moldova and Ukraine |
bessarabia |
| In Judaism, the age at which one may celebrate a second bar mitzvah |
eighty-three |
| In parts of Asia, a pourboire |
BAKSHEESH |
| Latin term meaning “existing” |
in esse |
