'Gentleman Jim' --, world heavyweight boxing champion |
CORBETT |
'The Book of --s', a collection of satirical works by Thackeray |
SNOB |
'The Dead of --', an Inspector Morse novel by Colin Dexter |
JERICHO |
-- House, the favourite residence of Queen Victoria |
OSBORNE |
-- spruce, a tree with sharp blue-green needles, grown for its timber |
SITKA |
2004 Christmas-themed film starring Susan Sarandon |
NOEL |
A dictator, as in George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-four' |
BIGBROTHER |
A predecessor of the oboe |
SHAWM |
A soft cheese made from sheep's milk |
RICOTTA |
Adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) |
KIDNAPPED |
African river, approximately 1,100 miles long |
LIMPOPO |
Albrecht --, German painter (1471-1528) |
DURER |
Ayrton --, Brazilian who won three Formula One championships |
SENNA |
Brazilian state, on the Atlantic coast |
ALAGOAS |
Charles --, author of the novel 'The Cloister and the Hearth' |
READE |
Charles --, Irish clergyman and writer of gothic plays and novels (1782-1824) |
MATURIN |