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- 1.. . . and what Ronnie Barker actually wanted
- 2.The Roman goddess of agriculture
- 3.Serving to constrain
- 4.The ____, between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, has the world's largest tidal range
- 5.Metrical feet in poetry (one of three possible spellings)
- 6.___ was the last US president from the Whig party, taking office after the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850
- 7.Optical device designed to have minimal spherical aberration
- 8.Winged "lizard” of the late Triassic and Cretaceous periods
- 9.Comedian who popularised the word "zit” in Britain and played the curmudgeonly Sykesy in The Archers last year
- 10.French car manufacturer, nationalised in 1945 and privatised in 1996
- 11."Not half so swift the ____ doves can fly / When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky” (Pope)
- 12.Actor who played Private Pike in Dad's Army
- 13.Having no date for resumption
- 14.Malware which is disguised as standard software
- 15.In medicine, this may be inguinal or hiatus
- 16.To be on either side of
- 17.In the UK, January in professional football
- 18.Japanese port city on the Yodo River
- 19.A person given counsel
- 20.Don Knotts received five Emmy awards for playing this deputy sheriff
- 21.Beef steak fillet named after a French author
- 22.Large round storage devices used in 1960s and 1970s computing (US spelling)
- 23.Britain's southernmost city
- 24.Charlton Heston's co-star in the 1961 epic El Cid
- 25.From Latin for "nest”, focuses of infection in medicine
- 26.Cartoon dog first featured in the Daily Mail in 1963
- 27.Drainage area occupying around 10 per cent of Africa's area
- 28.British golfer who was ranked world No 1 for a total of 97 weeks
- 29.Port-au-Prince is the capital of ____
- 30.Aviation pioneer with a brother called Wilbur
- 31."All ____s are good except the tiresome kind” (Voltaire)
- 32.Oscar ____ was the lyricist for musicals such as Carousel and South Pacific
- 33.Eliopsomo is a Greek variety of this Mediterranean food
- 34.Pianist described by Elvis Presley as 'the real king of rock 'n' roll
- 35.Copper ore sometimes used ornamentally
- 36."Friends and colleagues all ____ looked at us, treated us, slightly differently” (Neil Armstrong)
- 37.Tex-Mex dish often served sizzling on a platter
- 38.____ Pig is Porky Pig's girlfriend
- 39.New Zealand city noted for geothermal activity
- 40.Journalist placed within a military unit in wartime
- 41.In Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates's ____
- 42.Hunt encourages tax cut for fellow MPs as before
- 43.Shower dividing Labour producing material that smears
- 44.Former Liberal coming round to praise highly
- 45.Navy worker you heard getting the bird
- 46.No good eating fried onion for midday meal break
- 47.Hesitation not fully shown around river boats
- 48.A lot of drink for group of friends
- 49.No power mentioned for feudal district
- 50.Independent is carrying leader on Rupert Murdoch
- 51.Head outside Italy for normal drowned valleys
- 52.Disturbance in jet, tense for pilot upfront
- 53.Boys saving energy for Guides!
- 54.Some older referees returning made mistakes
- 55.Foot specialist treated my tibias? Not unknown
- 56.Learn about one American nurse, a gem
- 57.Second experiment, soprano unused in choral music
- 58.Drunk and terribly irate learned types
- 59.Formal protest organised from Roman centres
- 60.Parts of jellyfish sometimes seen caught with time at sea
- 61.Staple food one accepted in the borders of Mbale?
- 62.Odd bits of Briton's story
- 63.No big building complex open
- 64.Doctor raking in high earnings gets a small snack
- 65.Trots, say, struggled with noble's domain in Poland
- 66.Rudeness lost customers
- 67.Pickled onion's first consumed after seconds
- 68.Middle Eastern capital picked up lots of gossip
- 69.Opposed to opening Iceland briefly? Leads to complaint
- 70.Reporting again in prison
- 71.Rattle pondered getting slower and softer
- 72.Extremely strict girl cracking joke
- 73.Sour liquid accepted on a recipe?
- 74.Bond admits going too far for hot stuff
- 75.Jovial Londoner, 'es managed West 'Am
- 76.Crop that's novel spoken of
- 77.Openings in journal regularly taken
- 78.Quis vobis has nugas scripsit?
- 79.What terribe torture 'troubles' you? Pl. Bacchides 584
- 80.All things are changing, Ovid Met. 15.165
- 81.I'm speaking out
- 82.To mimic (dep.): simulare
- 83.Word's out that he's left dad's kingdom, Aen. 3.121. Who?
- 84.Without hope: ut exit Amor debilibus pinnis, Ovid Rem. 198
- 85.Adv., onward, far off, next, moreover, henceforth
- 86.C1BC six-book poem on Epicurean philosophy
- 87.Maestum et miseriter: dismally blue
- 88.Velis ministrantes ventos undasque marium vincimus
- 89.Arma violentaque bella Ovidius parabat edere sed non, hos edit
- 90.Galatea, 'whiter' than a leaf of white privet, Ovid Met. 13.789
- 91.I'll ask the boss: ____ vilicum, Cleo in Pl. Casina 273
- 92.Ac Syro nil ____! But no thanks for Syrus, Ter. Heaut. 999
- 93.Quot homines, ____ causae, Cic. de Oratore 2.32.140
- 94.Shameful' lies of an empty tongue, Ovid Amores 3.11.21
- 95.According to Nature as a whole: secundum ____ naturam
- 96.Comoedia perfecta, spectatores 'get up' et plaudunt
- 97.She went so 'she might choose' — historic seq., imperf., subj.
- 98.Cleaves: Perseus liquidum aera 'secat', vide Ovid Met. 4.667
- 99.To grill: quaerere rather than coquere
- 100.Meadows: qua sat biberunt, vide Virgil Ecl. 3.111
- 101.Res, ____, noun n. 5th decl., fact, matter, affair
- 102.Scientific study of human populations
- 103.Protective surface of a healing wound
- 104.Beef or lamb, eg
- 105.Roald Dahl heroine with telekinetic abilities
- 106.US playwright whose works include Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo
- 107.Industrial city of northwestern Germany
- 108.First song to top the UK singles chart four times with different artists
- 109.Conrad novella that inspired the film Apocalypse Now
- 110.Name for the puffin based on its likeness to another bird
- 111.Piece of offal typically obtained from cattle
- 112.Technical term for theft
- 113.Gel or emulsion, eg
- 114.West African country formerly known as French Sudan
- 115.Shropshire's county town
- 116.Devon port that is home to the Britannia Royal Naval College
- 117.Device connecting computers via a telephone line
- 118.Large saline body of water in northern Utah
- 119.Brass instrument resembling a small euphonium
- 120.Primate such as a human or one of our ancestors
- 121.Compound that forms plant cell walls, the main constituent of paper and cotton
- 122.Cilla -, singer who hosted the TV shows Blind Date and Surprise Surprise
- 123.Traditional pub game in which players swing a ball into small upright pins
- 124.Habitat of dense shrubs and bushes in southwest USA
- 125.Beatles song given the working title Scrambled Eggs
- 126.Frederick -, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Fourth Protocol
- 127.Member of diplomatic staff with specific expertise
- 128.State capital of Oregon
- 129.Phillips -, British athlete who won triple-jump gold at the 2009 world championships
- 130.1996 sci-fi comedy film based on a trading card game of the same name
- 131.Canvases coated with a linseed extract
- 132."To sleep, ____ to dream” (Hamlet)
- 133.The world's smallest republic
- 134.Cycling shoe attachment which clips on to the pedal
- 135.Staffordshire town which resisted two 20th-century attempts to add it to the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent
- 136.Set of three solo piano works by Liszt, published in 1950
- 137.Writing system named after the generally accepted creator of Glagolitic, which it gradually replaced
- 138.US term for films for adults, or others with adults
- 139.Where one may be "baht 'at” in West Yorkshire
- 140.The first poem in William McGonagall's Poetic Gems is of this type, addressed to Queen Victoria
- 141.Former name of Lesotho
- 142.Lead single from the 1963 Lesley Gore album I'll Cry If I Want To
- 143.East Sussex town on which Tillingham in the EF Benson Mapp and Lucia books is based
- 144.Taking off in a satirical way
- 145.Steadying device often attached to small video cameras
- 146.Dessert dish made by curdling cream with an acidic liquid such as wine
- 147.Writer and star of the ITV1 film Housewife, 49
- 148.See 10D
- 149.Possible response to advice on facts or working methods
- 150.Small African antelope, males of which have straight horns