“Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many ____s in vain ever to hope for their extirpation” (Disraeli) |
LANCE |
“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a ____” (Ray Bradbury) |
Ouija board |
“Taunts are not so sharp as ____” (The Song of Hiawatha) |
ARROWS |
“You shall not bob us out of our ____: if you do, our melancholy upon your head!” (Troilus and Cressida) |
MELODY |
“____ and wisdom are not opposing values” (Bill Clinton) |
STRENGTH |
1951 black and white sci-fi film starring Cesar Romero |
The Lost Continent |
19th-century professor of geology at Cambridge, who established the Cambrian period from research in Wales |
Adam Sedgwick |
A seducer of women in some 17th and 18th century plays |
LOTHARIO |
Apostle to whom a Gospel was traditionally attributed |
MATTHEW |
Arrangement allowing conflicting parties to coexist peacefully |
modus vivendi |
Australian-born photographer famed for her baby portraits and calendars |
Anne Geddes |
Bandleader who popularised Latin American music in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s |
Edmundo Ros |
Belgian actor noted for his roles in martial arts and action films |
Jean-Claude Van Damme |
Cake soaked in alcoholic syrup, often served with cream |
rum baba |
Collection of stories with morals, including The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs |
Aesop’s Fables |
EastEnders character played by June Brown, 1985-93 and 1987-2020 |
Dot Cotton |
Ecclesiastical council; astrological conjunction of planets |
SYNOD |
Egyptian construction project of the 1960s, completed with assistance from Soviet Russia |
aswan dam |
Firearm intended to disperse crowds rather than cause serious injury |
riot gun |
Former boxer nicknamed The Dark Destroyer |
Nigel Benn |
Former state given nominal independence by South Africa in 1976, part of the Eastern Cape province since 1994 |
TRANSKEI |
Goldsmith play first called The Mistakes of a Night |
She Stoops to Conquer |
Historically, a band of Zulu warriors |
IMPI |
Holland and Belgium |
the Low Countries |