| Periodic comet that passed close to the sun in 1997 |
HALEBOPP |
| Practice of punishing without a proper trial |
LYNCHLAW |
| Quality of having knot-like swellings |
NODOSITY |
| Scene of Greek victory over Persians in 490BC |
MARATHON |
| Semicircular or polygonal recess in church |
APSE |
| Small town on River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway |
SANQUHAR |
| Southern African country, formerly Northern Rhodesia |
ZAMBIA |
| Struggle characterised by heavy blows |
SLUGFEST |
| Thirteenth-century round sometimes known as the 'Reading Rota' |
SUMERISICUMENIN |
| Tropical Asian starling |
MYNA |
| Trying to encourage support |
TALKINGUP |
| Welsh cheese containing mustard seeds |
YFENNI |
| Woman's loose dressing-gown |
NEGLIGEE |
| Word from French for a buckler |
RONDACHE |
