“And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, / Make the sage ____, and the serious smile” (Pope, translating Homer) |
FROLIC |
“Politics […] are nothing but corruptions […] for which reason courts are so ____ with politics” (Jonathan Swift) |
OVERRUN |
“We will have ____ and things, and fine array; / And kiss me, Kate; we will be married o’ Sunday” (Taming of the Shrew) |
RINGS |
“Young love is ____, but it needs to get around” (Ovid, Ars Amatoria) |
ERRANT |
“____’s sons are brothers in distress; / A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!” (Robert Burns, A Winter Night) |
AFFLICTION |
’Tis was the sequel to this 1996 Frank McCourt memoir |
Angela’s Ashes |
1989 No 1 single by the Bangles |
Eternal Flame |
A description of a very disadvantageous situation |
lose-lose |
A lubricating pump |
grease gun |
A polished but not faceted gemstone, usually opaque |
CABOCHON |
A wild ass of central Asia |
ONAGER |
A ____ portrait depicts someone down to the waist |
half-length |
An old technical name for malnutrition |
cacotrophy |
An open tart, or the metal disc which is stamped to produce a coin |
FLAN |
British actress who starred alongside John Krasinski in the horror film A Quiet Place |
Emily Blunt |
Charles ____ was the cartoonist who created Snoopy |
SCHULZ |
Choreographer who directed films including Cabaret (1972) and All That Jazz |
Bob Fosse |
Edmond ____’s 1897 play was the first fictionalisation of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac |
ROSTAND |
Embryonic structure from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
neural tube |
England’s third-largest protected landscape |
The Cotswolds |
In 1919, a post-war treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at this former French royal residence |
Palace of Versailles |
In a medieval university, the study of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music for an MA |
Quadrivium |
In American football, this scores six points |
TOUCHDOWN |
In Asia, a single-passenger cart pulled (or now often pedalled) by one person |
RICKSHAW |