| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1982 film in which Dustin Hoffman’s character uses deception to secure a soap opera role | View Answer |
| 1991 film starring Michael J Fox as aspiring surgeon Benjamin Stone | View Answer |
| 2001 action film starring Steven Seagal and rapper DMX | View Answer |
| A common name for various notably prickly shrubs | View Answer |
| A judge’s review of evidence given to the jury | View Answer |
| A Lancashire ____ is traditionally served with pickled red cabbage | View Answer |
| A rowdy reveller | View Answer |
| Ancient Greece’s “father of geometry” | View Answer |
| Ben ____ was the main writer of the 1920s and 1930s Aldwych farces | View Answer |
| Decoration of furniture with veneers, mainly of wood | View Answer |
| Footballer who co-hosted Match of the Day, 1992-2014 | View Answer |
| Game show first seen on British TV sets in 1951 | View Answer |
| Garden game involving at least a dozen shots per player | View Answer |
| German romanesque churches often have ____ at both ends of the nave | View Answer |
| Hamlet character with a name previously used in The Odyssey | View Answer |
| In 2018, British cyclist ____ became the third rider, after Eddy Mercx and Bernard Hinault, to hold all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously | View Answer |
| In America, a luxury car noted for handling rather than comfort | View Answer |
| In social insects, a distinct form like queen or worker | View Answer |
| Informally, anaesthetised | View Answer |
| Irish poet who wrote the lyrics for The Last Rose of Summer and The Minstrel Boy | View Answer |
| Joe ____’s plays include Loot and Entertaining Mr Sloane | View Answer |
| Leading Shakespeare actress in late 19th-century Britain | View Answer |
| Lionel Messi made his professional debut for FC ____ | View Answer |
| Main protagonist of children’s books by Tove Jansson | View Answer |
| Measurement taken from crotch to ankle | View Answer |
| Not suitable | View Answer |
| Old-fashioned or conservative behaviour | View Answer |
| One of two names for a tissue transplant from an unrelated member of the same species | View Answer |
| Piglet: Do you think it's a-a-a Woozle? Pooh: It may be. ____ it is, and ____ it isn’t | View Answer |
| Plant recommended by Culpeper to cure dimness of sight | View Answer |
| Prolific actor whose sole Oscar was for his role as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter | View Answer |
| Purple ____ was once thought to improve dairy cow yields | View Answer |
| River which empties into the Arabian Sea near Karachi | View Answer |
| Rodney’s girlfriend, later wife, in Only Fools and Horses | View Answer |
| Russian novelist Ivan ____ created the character Oblomov, a personification of procrastination and idleness | View Answer |
| Singer who recorded I Know Him So Well (from Chess) with Barbara Dickson | View Answer |
| Small bird, widespread in much of Europe, and found in ancient pinewoods in northern Scotland | View Answer |
| Someone who ____ does not play safe | View Answer |
| Someone who ____ made a rather dishonest attempt to get something or impress someone | View Answer |
| Spaghetti Junction lies in this suburb of Birmingham | View Answer |
| Surrey town named from Old English for “river-source” | View Answer |
| The 2013 ____ Dealers Act made it illegal to pay cash for ____ | View Answer |
| The capital of Brazil, 1763-1960 | View Answer |
| The first name of the singer-songwriter known as Duffy | View Answer |
| The Mysterious ___ at Styles was Agatha Christie’s first book | View Answer |
| The world’s largest bird of prey | View Answer |
| To make a security no longer tradeable at a stock exchange | View Answer |
| Troublesome friends may be “emotionally ____” | View Answer |
| “Authority intoxicates, / And makes mere sots of magistrates; / The ____ of it invade the brain” (Samuel Butler) | View Answer |
| “Idle hands are the Devil’s ____” (English proverb) | View Answer |
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