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- 1.Plants affording habitat to bitterns and water rails, eg
- 2.Inventor of the moveable type printing press
- 3.England Test opener and captain of Surrey
- 4.Indigenous people of Tanzania and Kenya
- 5.Children's author born Theodor Geisel in 1904
- 6.Soul singer who became an ordained minister
- 7.Dame Edna -, alter ego of Barry Humphries
- 8.Eucharistic hymn whose English version begins "Holy, holy, holy”
- 9.Official residence of the president of France
- 10.Type of triangle with sides of different lengths
- 11.Site of visions experienced by Bernadette Soubirous
- 12.German existentialist philosopher (1889-1976)
- 13.Nontechnical name for the umbilicus
- 14.Hypothetical particle postulated to travel faster than the speed of light
- 15.Longest river in Asia
- 16.Town that Thomas Hardy based on Dorchester
- 17.Actor who played nine members of the same family in Kind Hearts and Coronets
- 18.Pacific area between New Zealand and Australia
- 19.British polymath, grandson of a Victorian prime minister
- 20.School of art and design founded by Walter Gropius
- 21.M in the CMYK colour system
- 22.Film in which Christoph Waltz assumed the role of Blofeld
- 23.Vegetable known as a rutabaga in N America
- 24.Who went to the land of Nod hugging fit old man?
- 25.Daughter's missing German and oddly the Scots adventures
- 26.Public in Oxford Uni here! I'm done, another may go
- 27.Standard Old Latin is spoken
- 28.Boat from Bremen with bow
- 29.Take off slight peer
- 30.Phoney OT book, in short, about son lying in grass
- 31.Small bank knocked back old companions
- 32.English with a passé dog could be a pain
- 33.Line by señora, say, cutting special cord
- 34.Adapt that by which 'ighwayman 'anged
- 35.Whole and stiff fish
- 36.Quondam rollicking self-driving shriek kid's kept in
- 37.Niche boozer that bloke turned over
- 38.Head of state entertaining American ass
- 39.It's airtight and helps keep dry judge in rear, in disarray
- 40.Column that's fresh verges on exceptional
- 41.Return of former period — les lche-vitrines love this display
- 42.Bluebottles finishing off shoe brush
- 43.Carefully check a resort, as was
- 44.Greek hymns broadcast before bearing up
- 45.Fête in need of opening — take something to clear the air
- 46.Tree's preposterous synonym so far taken up
- 47.Rab C's more sober, otherwise cured of being held
- 48.Wooden group wrapped up in soul music
- 49.Driving mist engulfing Scots isle, ultimately one gets a ticket for later
- 50.Letters dealt out decisive blow
- 51.Ban relied on shifting queue of poor
- 52.Miss helping in court — enjoy oneself finally visiting Ireland
- 53.Jack on ship who hoisted "England expects” etc
- 54.Stiff singer usually seen dressed up
- 55.Go for mug with trouble
- 56.Container in Cadiz can just about open
- 57.Food packaging beginning to attract seabird
- 58.Old muffle is supple I conceded
- 59.Bore to go along with putting up one on state benefit
- 60.Former game show with nine contestants usually in apparent cuboid compartments
- 61.Organisation offering training and certification in diving
- 62.Largest city located on the River Weser in Germany
- 63.Jim Parsons plays ____ Cooper in The Big Bang Theory
- 64.To obtain something (typically money) by force or threat
- 65.February 6 in New Zealand
- 66.Piece of writing which excludes one or more letters of the alphabet
- 67.Illuminated manuscript version of the four Gospels, housed at Trinity College Library in Dublin
- 68.Informally, the Beethoven symphony performed in this year's first live Prom on August 28
- 69.Wood which was the reason for the creation of British Honduras as a colony
- 70.First philosopher mentioned in Monty Python's "Bruces' Song”
- 71.Group which had a 1970 hit with Knock Three Times
- 72.In the House of Commons, an MP who does not hold office
- 73.Fermented soya bean paste, the base for a Japanese soup
- 74.James McConville is the US Army's current ____
- 75."The Red One”, a famous Moorish palace in Granada
- 76.A protein acting as a catalyst in biochemical reactions
- 77.Grasshopper or cricket, for example
- 78.In anatomy, the opposite of distal
- 79.Racecourses of ancient Rome and Greece
- 80.French term for a duty or educational exercise
- 81.With Brutus, Sicinius ____ plots the downfall of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's play
- 82.Part of an insect's body which bears the wings and legs
- 83.1992 No 1 hit for Shakespears Sister
- 84.The cause of glandular fever
- 85.Cerumen
- 86.The "Doc” played by Christopher Lloyd in the Back to the Future films
- 87.To encounter, usually unexpectedly
- 88."If [. . .] I am an optimist, my ____ to the creed of optimism is worth hearing” (Helen Keller)
- 89.Three-verse poem by Byron, inspired by Anne Beatrix Wilmot, his cousin's wife
- 90.An official language of Pakistan
- 91.The "Lion of Punjab”, a Sikh empire leader of the early 19th century
- 92.Also known as the Amidah, central prayer of the Jewish liturgy
- 93.Satirist described by Stephen Fry as "The funniest man who ever drew breath”
- 94.Pasta is usually made from this variety of wheat
- 95.Lakeland fell which became Kanchenjunga in a Swallows and Amazons novel by Arthur Ransome
- 96.Something which provides guidance (originally a name for the Pole Star)
- 97.Race devised for the first modern Olympics in 1896
- 98.Author of The Devil's Dictionary
- 99.Actor who played Sebastian alongside Florence Pugh in the 2016 film Lady Macbeth
- 100.1959 mystery novel by Muriel Spark
- 101.The study of word origins
- 102.In Spanish-speaking countries, a motorway
- 103.According to polls, nearly half of Serbia's football fans support ____ Belgrade
- 104.A form of paramnesia
- 105.A fold pressed or sewn in fabric
- 106.Torgau, where US and Soviet forces met on April 25, 1945, stands on this river
- 107.They were brought out: e + fero, imperf. indic. pass.
- 108.Plates of meat? Ut dicunt in 'Ackneio
- 109.Adv. (+ verb) greatly, (+ adj.) rather, quite
- 110.Things which have been given up: perf. ppl. desero, ~ere, ~ui
- 111.And her or him or them: acc., abl. pronoun + enclitic particle
- 112.____ sodes: come over, if you want, cf. Ter. Phormio 921
- 113.Sand (root of our word for sports stadium): sabulum
- 114.I'm anti, I hurt or hinder, opp. prosum: noceo, iniuriam facio
- 115.____ Dirae: hateful Furies
- 116.Of Sparta's river, see Catullus 64.89
- 117.Adv. by night or at night (NB this is the commoner form)
- 118.He will have put X in place, established X
- 119.Caesar milites in 'campaigns' mittebat (3rd f. acc.)
- 120.Faith, confidence: fiducia, confidentia
- 121.Stat in his orator in foro loquens: speaker's platform (it's plural)
- 122.Matris praecepta ____: lessons of the Blessed Mother
- 123.Adv. too much, excessively
- 124.From every side, everywhere, all round (lit. and metaph.)
- 125.Quid fecerunt imperatores imperium habentes?
- 126.Every day I get up with the larks: diurne et mane ____
- 127.____ Aurorae: with the arrival of Dawn (4th abl.)
- 128.Unbiased children (idem verbum, bis; definitio anceps)
- 129.Fear, anxiety, dread (4th): horror, formido
- 130.Father-in-law: pater coniugis tui
- 131.Feline species of Africa and Asia with black tufted ears
- 132.Relatively cool area on a solar surface
- 133.Mythical prophetess doomed never to be believed
- 134.Influential rock band with Eric Clapton on guitar and Ginger Baker on drums
- 135.Name of the first animal to be launched into orbit
- 136.Type of unrefined sugar
- 137.Detective introduced in Last Bus to Woodstock (1975)
- 138.Pulp album featuring Disco 2000 and Common People
- 139.Plant whose flowers are said to resemble a human figure
- 140.- Winfrey, media personality and entrepreneur
- 141.US author who wrote: "The report of my death was an exaggeration”
- 142.Member of the Merry Men variously portrayed by Mike McShane and Mark Addy
- 143.UK's largest land mammal
- 144.Parliament of Israel
- 145.Edible mollusc with a rounded ribbed shell
- 146.Nationality of the writers Gogol and Pasternak
- 147.Small sour fruit of wild trees in the Malus genus
- 148.Play character who exclaims: "Out, damned spot!”
- 149.Jamaican music style that gave rise to reggae
- 150.Tortilla chip covered in cheese and grilled