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- 1.American game fish with two musical terms in its name
- 2.Result of just two cricket test matches to date
- 3.Turtle-like character featured in Mario video games since 1985
- 4.Rattlesnakes and adders are both ____s
- 5.The Muslim equivalent of "God willing”
- 6.Afrikaans word meaning infantrymen, pedestrians, or young locusts
- 7.There are 2.54 ____ in one inch
- 8.Film noir's first female director (The Hitch-Hiker, 1953)
- 9."Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness! / Rival in crime and falsehood, ____ all / The wanton horrors of her bloody play” (Shelley)
- 10.Socially confident and outgoing
- 11.A ____ baby is a problem aggravated by attempts to solve it
- 12.James Bond villain with a henchman called Nick Nack
- 13.Suffix used in some ordinal numbers and archaic verb forms
- 14.Actress who played the lead in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation
- 15.Sweet rice wine used in Japanese cookery
- 16.Plunging into a liquid
- 17.Related by blood
- 18.Symbolic barrier named by Winston Churchill
- 19."Old men only ____ for people to ask them to talk” (Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine)
- 20.Common last movement of a sonata or concerto
- 21.Derogatory slang term for a farm worker
- 22.____ Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group
- 23.A negatively charged particle
- 24.Those with a vested interest in a business
- 25.In ice hockey, Manchester Storm play home games in ____
- 26.Identical twins Laviai and Lina ____ formed half of Britain's bronze medal-winning women's 4x400m team at the recent World Indoor Championships
- 27.Madonna's second album
- 28."Out in the street [. . .] the police with their tommy-guns ____ to and fro” (George Orwell on totalitarianism)
- 29.The Last of the Mohicans (1826) was one of James Fenimore Cooper's ____
- 30.International music competition first held in 1956
- 31.Earache
- 32.Tony Abbott's predecessor as prime minister of Australia
- 33."I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an ____” (The Tempest)
- 34.French city with the Rhine's second-largest river port
- 35.Unesco world heritage site where Ansel Adams took some of his best-known photographs
- 36.Biblical prophet whose name means "God strengthens”
- 37.A whole number
- 38.Abdullah ____, South African composer once known as Dollar Brand
- 39.The windpipe
- 40.As a result of his European Recovery Plan, George Marshall was the only US ____ to receive the Nobel peace prize
- 41.Actress who was Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques sketches
- 42.Feargal Sharkey once fronted the ____
- 43.Video game character portrayed in film by Angelina Jolie
- 44.From his hair colour, one of two nicknames for the Italian Mannerist painter Giovanni Batista di Jacopo
- 45."____ by Sir Walter Scott” is an anagram of "A novel by a Scottish writer”
- 46.480 grains
- 47.Old testament dry measure of around 33 litres
- 48.Rate brews with a test? That's me
- 49.Answer a grumble about a lot of dung doubling as throat remedy
- 50.Unpleasantly damp and often warm like Quahog?
- 51.Fish: southern constellation
- 52.Chest gently touched during conversation
- 53.Containing protesters tipped to be aiming for Holyrood?
- 54.Divine Scottish remote regions (not cold)
- 55.Labelling piece of jewelry worn by mother round back of neck
- 56.I recalled numerous parties in clubs of equal intensity
- 57.Accommodation's good in Hell?
- 58.Ancient Greek returning to work at one
- 59.Parasite sounds jolly
- 60.Irish on the rocks, a mild stimulant
- 61.Obtain Ecstasy that's legal
- 62.Swinging Lulu posed with ex, last of the pros
- 63.Gave strength to note in planner largely withdrawn
- 64.Join metal riding gear and tie the knot round top of leathers
- 65.Muscle pump in genial warmth
- 66.Breadbaskets? They're found in the kitchen
- 67.Arsenal's output is unconfined rubbish
- 68.Toddler's airplane circling yard is red
- 69.Active gas inlet situated by Aberdeen?
- 70.Old satchel that is split
- 71.Inclination to fight acting up badly by US hostel
- 72.Motorway activity rolling past stokes air pollution
- 73.Scottish dwelling indeed that is consumed by fire
- 74.Back home in the country after onset of intense exhaustion
- 75.Flying rhea? No I'm a flightless bird
- 76.Left out part in Excel
- 77.Molluscs: awful until I included a hint of aioli
- 78.It's made from fish, sauce (Roman) essentially
- 79.Fatty deposit found in granular custard
- 80.Children's game that's insubstantial, not won
- 81.Grand old swindler, clever Geordie?
- 82.Antigonus sheds more than half burden
- 83.Ordo Romanus nec senatorius nec plebeius
- 84.Materia in qua auctores scribebant, papyrus
- 85.Incidentally, meet three times along the way!
- 86.Cibus quem homines callidi celant
- 87.I allege, incuso, arguo, criminor
- 88.Ad honoris amplioris gradum ... primus ____, the first step up to the level of higher honour (vide Cic. Leg. 3.7)
- 89.Teach me your laws, ____ me statuta tua (institutional motto based on Psalm 119, 12)
- 90.Librarius qui 9 cum calamo atramentoque uti solet
- 91.Incipit ____ mediaque in voce resistit, [Dido] begins to speak out and checks in mid-speech (Aen. 4.76)
- 92.Sic tales confusiones ciet
- 93.Paterfamilias, dominus
- 94.Aeneae pater
- 95.Conturbata ora est ubi haec concha esculenta invenitur ...
- 96.... quam forsitan hic tabernarius vendit? (see Ter. Eun. 257, where it's pl.)
- 97.Owl (often ill-omened, described as funereus, luctifer, ignavus)
- 98.Entrance, opening, eg Oceani ____, Straits of Gibraltar (vide Cic. De Imp. 33)
- 99.You, creep! (imperative, not insult)
- 100.DC — hence countless, innumerable (eg Cic. Rosc. Amer. 90)
- 101.Bracchii pars quae ab umero ad cubitum extenditur
- 102.Exstat, praecellit, excedit
- 103.Psyche virgo vidua domi residens ____, the maiden Psyche weeps, sitting abandoned at home (vide Apul. Met. 4.32)
- 104.Tomorrow pig leaves Crassus!
- 105.Handle (like that of the drunken Silenus's tankard, Ecl. 6.17)
- 106.2023 comedy thriller film with Barry Keoghan, Richard E Grant and Rosamund Pike
- 107.EU country officially known as the Hellenic Republic
- 108.- Reeves, stage name of the comic and artist Jim Moir
- 109.Nation whose chief languages are Malagasy and French
- 110.Former term for the port side of a ship
- 111.Borneo, Sicily or Sark, eg
- 112.Nicolas -, director of Don't Look Now and Walkabout
- 113.Mark -, US co-founder of Facebook
- 114.Acclaimed debut novel of the author Zadie Smith
- 115.Type of number comprising all rationals and irrationals
- 116.Patrick Marber play made into a film starring Julia Roberts and Jude Law
- 117.Variable opening allowing light into a camera
- 118.Influential 1959 novel by Günter Grass
- 119.Music genre associated with Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z
- 120.Piece of wood supporting the strings of a violin, guitar etc
- 121.Pair such as "bone” and "gone” or "cough” and "dough”
- 122.Street in Mayfair, London, associated with tailoring
- 123.Lakeside city of central Switzerland
- 124.Fast-growing tropical plant, technically a grass
- 125.Game bird whose males are known as moorcocks
- 126.Igneous rock of proverbial strength
- 127.King Arthur's sword
- 128.Public official who conducts inquests
- 129.NE English town overlooked by the Angel of the North
- 130.Flamboyant singer of the hits I Kissed a Girl and Roar
- 131.Dizzy -, great US jazz trumpeter
- 132.Leather sheath for a pistol
- 133.Rotary device for converting kinetic to mechanical energy
- 134.Royal attendant historically responsible for the stables
- 135.Minor earthquake
- 136.Territory sold by Russia in 1867 to prevent it from falling into British hands in a future war
- 137.John ____ gave his name to a list of aristocrats, most recently published (in its 150th edition) in 2019
- 138.A line like a contour, seen on some weather maps
- 139.A reversal of this male forename is a mint brand
- 140.The trumpet manucode, for example
- 141.2006 dystopian film starring Hugo Weaving in a Guy Fawkes mask and Natalie Portman
- 142.French-derived term for obsessive passion
- 143.Another term for entourages
- 144.Garden plant; a male lover's name in various old ballads
- 145.Since 2021, the main host of BBC Woman's Hour
- 146.The ____s at the base of Nelson's Column were designed by Edwin Landseer
- 147.Bread manufacturer which Samuel L Jackson and Sylvester Stallone have advertised
- 148.Medium in which James May worked to create a garden for the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show
- 149.Beef cut usually cooked slowly
- 150."It is more important that a proposition be ____ than it be true” (Alfred North Whitehead)