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- 1.Country where ecotourists may visit the Okavango delta
- 2.Ken -, the Republic of Ireland's sole world snooker champion
- 3.Early Archbishop of Canterbury and royal adviser canonised in 1029
- 4.UK's smallest bird of prey
- 5.Greek counterpart of Mars
- 6.Monty Don's garden, often seen on Gardeners' World
- 7.Metal pans holding hot coals, providing comfort at night
- 8.Tyrannical Roman emperor assassinated in AD41
- 9.Actress who plays Queen Gudrun in the 2022 film The Northman
- 10.Italian dessert of egg yolks, sugar and marsala, beaten and usually served warm
- 11.Naturalist who founded a wetland wildlife reserve at Slimbridge
- 12.Scottish game resembling hockey, in which the ball can be played in the air and with either side of the stick
- 13.Consumer investigation show on BBC TV since 1985
- 14.Goddess of fate in Norse mythology
- 15.Poker player, host of a challenging TV quiz show since 2008
- 16.Given comfort in times of grief or disappointment
- 17.Letters that Brian Cox, David Attenborough and James Dyson can add to their names
- 18.Formally, "jobs for the boys”
- 19.London-based sporting organisation whose colours have been called "egg and bacon”
- 20.Type of melon first developed in Israel
- 21.Establishment outside which breakfast is consumed in the opening scene of in a 1961 film rom-con
- 22.For a mathematical function y = f(x), the set of possible values for x is its ____ and the set of possible values of y is its range
- 23.Topi is an alternative name for this lightweight sunhat
- 24.Mr and Mrs Meaker were agents for this spooky agency in a 1970s/1980s BBC children's comedy series
- 25.Percussion instrument with steel bars struck with mallets
- 26.Symbol familiar to viola players in orchestras
- 27.First-class cricket team whose only county championship win was in 1936
- 28.____ plays Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street and recently appeared in I'm a Celebrity
- 29.Irish-American actress Maureen ____ starred with John Wayne in Rio Grande and The Quiet Man
- 30.Musician such as John Williams, Brian May or Bert Weedon
- 31.Three of the five Platonic solids have ____ triangles as faces
- 32.The ____ Throne was the seat of power in imperial China
- 33.County in Iowa; a US motorhome company founded there
- 34.Independent young tourists using cheap accommodation
- 35.Dutch town, noted for its pottery, where Jan Vermeer lived
- 36.Richard ____ and John Kay developed the spinning frame, an improvement on the previous spinning jenny
- 37.Alberta's "Gas City”, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling as having "all hell for a basement”
- 38.Sizewell B is a power station using a pressurised water ____
- 39.Dutch philosopher, a leading 17th-century rationalist
- 40.One of the Windward Islands, discovered by Columbus on a Sunday and named accordingly
- 41.A ____ approach is one requiring little or no intervention
- 42.City seen as the birthplace of the Irish linen industry
- 43.Nickname for a lorry's tachograph
- 44."What do dancers think of ____? [. . .] We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect.” (Mikhail Baryshnikov)
- 45.Extinct flying reptile, with remains principally found in limestone deposits in Bavaria
- 46.French term which once meant a light dish between courses at a formal banquet, and later a dessert
- 47.Coronation Street cafe owned by a railway and chess enthusiast
- 48.Dance which originated in Cuba in the 1950s
- 49.In Scotland, an assistant to a hunter
- 50.A school's annual cohort of new pupils
- 51.Lionel ____ was the losing captain in the first shock result of the 2022 World Cup
- 52.Leather made from the underside of animal skin
- 53.Originally Hebrew heaps could be worked out in these measures
- 54.City den providing something to eat
- 55.Pa's neurotic about safeguards
- 56.Timing devices whine audibly and make a rough noise when knocked over
- 57.I adore travelling around?
- 58.Old man, one joining political party — so this?
- 59.Instrument to jam endlessly on "middle” note, leading to fuss
- 60.Song from non-Christian having a change of heart
- 61.To look happy maiden's not showing strain
- 62."Cheers!” and "Shame!” said to be unacceptable
- 63.Put forward allegation, quietly take initiative
- 64.Refute old Socialist with terrible rage outside university
- 65.Word to describe friars in capital city
- 66.Heavy person with trumpet at entrance to thieves' hideout
- 67.Ill-gotten gains brought back — lots — in workers' containers
- 68.Writs for accused people up in arms ere being released
- 69.Master treasurer's message to member who owes him money
- 70.Bosses in terrible flurries if wrongly ignored
- 71.Talk drinking port in religious office
- 72.English queen maybe the fellow's held to be goddess
- 73.A hero becoming bitter
- 74.Criminal investigators certain to nab little monster
- 75.Anomalous yet properly organised mini-illustration
- 76.My soldiers line up at the front
- 77.Pole's boy on a rise
- 78.More than one in family case pretends son is terrible
- 79.A privateer aboard ship rarely sweats
- 80.Island dismissing leader in very unfriendly manner
- 81.City sailor up to hug his mate?
- 82.What knocks out wild animal — a terrible end in store
- 83.Broads — fantastic to get on surface
- 84.Any number in a sport provided with special tag
- 85.Ultimately you kill grub that's destroyed cereal
- 86.Go on river? Stop going on it
- 87.Gush as before in the bar
- 88.Youngster's pulse when upset
- 89.A cloud, especially a raincloud, or the storm that comes from it
- 90.Disguised or cautious women (lit. covered or hidden)
- 91.Destroyed, effaced (fem. nom. PPP aboleo)
- 92.A red-haired woman
- 93.Before, in front of; ____ se ferre, to show, reveal and betray
- 94.Cave, cavern; vide eg Cic. Fin. 2.94, Philocteta ... decimum annum in ____ iacet
- 95.On the way up, like the sun
- 96.Shut it, you lot!
- 97.Sinking back down, like the sun after a long day
- 98.With due observance, in a proper manner
- 99.Paths, streets, journeys or ways (acc.)
- 100.Metuentes, verentes, paventes
- 101.Shrewd, expert; vide eg Tac. Germania 22, gens non ____ nec callida
- 102.Crudeles, durae, truces
- 103.Violent, heavy rain, pluvia, 1ac
- 104.Public baths
- 105.It's enough, it's sufficient, eg verbum sapienti ____ est
- 106.Three hundred: Leonidas ... se in Thermopylis ____que eos, quos eduxerat Sparta ... opposuit hostibus, Cic. Fin. 2.97
- 107.By the horn: ductus ____ stabit sacer hircus ad aram, Virg. Geo. 2.395
- 108.It influenced and affected, eg terror milites hostisque in diversum ____, Tac. Ann. 11.19
- 109.He's lending him seven grand, septem donat ____, Hor. Ep. 1.7.80
- 110.More fitting: si quid novisti ____ istis / ... imperti, if you know better, pass it on, Hor. Ep. 1.6.67-8
- 111.Garlands, wreaths, crowns
- 112.Command (abl. sing.), vide eg Plaut. Curc. 329, tuo ____ profectus sum
- 113.Pitch pine, or a torch made from it
- 114.Parvum animal quod caseum aufert
- 115.Nationality of the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan
- 116.Italian coastal resort between Sorrento and Salerno
- 117.17th-century French writer of acerbic epigrams
- 118.Kyiv-born sculptor (1887-1964) inspired by cubism
- 119.- Tindall, daughter of Princess Anne
- 120.Nickname of West Ham United FC
- 121.New Zealand lizard with an unusual "third eye”
- 122.Ancient astronomer who proposed an Earth-centred universe in his Almagest
- 123.Winter thrush often seen in flocks with fieldfares
- 124.Mary -, British gold, silver and bronze medallist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
- 125.Epithet of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I
- 126.Later evolutionary work by Charles Darwin
- 127.Destination for cross-Channel ferries from Newhaven
- 128.Country to which Madeira and the Azores belong
- 129.Philistine giant described in the Book of Samuel
- 130.Gas mainly composed of nitrogen, oxygen and argon
- 131.Mathematician credited with inventing the water screw
- 132.The white poplar tree
- 133.Spiked medieval club
- 134.British winner of four women's major golf championships
- 135.US state bordered to the east by Ohio and west by Illinois
- 136.- Games, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto franchise
- 137.Sense organ possessed by many arthropods
- 138.South African writer of travel memoirs and novels
- 139.Salty ingredient in many southeast Asian dishes
- 140.Gland situated by the ear
- 141.Metal device on a rope for hooking onto a far object
- 142.Small drum, typically one of a pair
- 143.Large type of seaweed
- 144."Forgetful cat” in children's stories by Judith Kerr
- 145.Flexor muscle of the upper arm or thigh
- 146.A white wine of the Loire Valley
- 147.Under way
- 148.Company like Cammel Laird or Harland and Wolff
- 149.The ____ measures the specific gravity of a sugar solution
- 150.Title of a deputy taoiseach