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- 1.Capital city of Bulgaria
- 2.Language from which the words "meerkat” and "trek” are borrowed
- 3.Crustacean that adopts the shells of other molluscs
- 4.Dutch football great who managed Chelsea and Newcastle United
- 5.Author of the self-help manual How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 6.Best actress Oscar winner in 2002 for Monster's Ball
- 7.Arid wilderness of Mongolia and northern China
- 8.Large rodent covered in long sharp "quills”
- 9.Rorke's -, British mission station beset by Zulu warriors in January 1879
- 10.L Frank -, creator of the Wizard of Oz
- 11.Iridescent gemstone primarily mined in Australia
- 12.In Welsh-based spelling, a North Wales town whose walls and castle are part of a Unesco world heritage site
- 13.Head judge in Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-2016
- 14."Continental people have sex life; the English have ____ bottles” (George Mikes in How to be an Alien)
- 15.The ____ Aqueduct and its section of the Llangollen Canal are a Unesco world heritage site
- 16.Living accommodation with one main room
- 17.Farm buildings with curved roofs and no walls
- 18.English ballerina who became a Strictly judge in 2012
- 19.Marie ____'s work in wax included a self-portrait still shown at the London museum she founded
- 20.Joe Root's successor as England Test cricket captain
- 21.Author of the novels Good Companions and Angel Pavement
- 22.Irish singer-songwriter whose Orinoco Flow was a No 1 hit in 1988
- 23.US actor who played Oliver Wendell Douglas in the US TV sitcom Green Acres and Carlton Travis in Falcon Crest
- 24.The holly genus; another name for holm-oak
- 25.Piece of armour covering the chest
- 26.Scotland's southernmost Munro, overlooking its largest loch by surface area
- 27.Petty gangster or ruffian
- 28.Located in Port Charlotte, one of Islay's nine distilleries
- 29.Jazz standard from the Gershwin brothers musical Girl Crazy
- 30.Cook whose "effect” has dramatically increased sales of some foods and utensils
- 31.Robin Day was the first host of this TV topical debate forum
- 32.A British state school's year includes five ____s
- 33.Non-technical name for urticaria
- 34.Capital city of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia
- 35.US version of a military instruction to turn in the opposite direction
- 36.Argued; propelled a boat
- 37.Prolific novelist who wrote The Prisoner of Zenda
- 38.City on the Atlantic coast of Florida, known as the "Venice of America” because of its many canals
- 39.Unfair use of power to benefit or employ family or friends
- 40.British professional boxing trophy which is retained by a winner of three titles in the same weight division
- 41.Excessive refinement
- 42.Kiln for drying hops, especially in Kent
- 43.Currency used in Liberia, Namibia or Taiwan, for instance
- 44.Dancer who has appeared in every Strictly series and is now a judge
- 45.Also called manioc, the source of tapioca
- 46.Choreographer and director of West End musicals, and a Strictly judge 2004-2008
- 47.Pruned tidily; adorned
- 48.Midlands town where Jensen cars were made, 1935-76
- 49.Like the Ffestiniog or Talyllyn railways
- 50.Interstate 10, the US's southernmost cross-country highway, links three state capitals — Phoenix, Baton Rouge and ____
- 51.A ____ ban prohibits a football manager from being present on or near to the field of play during a match
- 52.The German equivalent of the French "n'est-ce pas?”
- 53.The plant "inextricably entwined” and in love with the honeysuckle in a Flanders and Swann song
- 54.In computing, a structured collection of information that can be managed as an entity
- 55.A fixed number of verse lines forming a unit of a poem
- 56."Is [. . .] bad treatment ever given to a person? / No, it is always ____ out” (Flann O'Brien's Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Cliché)
- 57.Church is given cladding of stone and rock
- 58.Everyone wearing Cornish flower or ribbon
- 59.Spotty track on slope contains something greasy, not half bad
- 60.Love having sufficient at home
- 61.Engineers entering to withdraw short cord
- 62.Foray made by great England scorer seeing sides off
- 63.A salt absorbs minimum of that oil
- 64.Big-time female out for vengeance
- 65.Anger once shown by adolescent with extra energy
- 66.Number in Nazi corps getting guns
- 67.Go to hill to find Aboriginal device
- 68.Street to get round with excellent Greek architectural features
- 69.Report of what hard-up person may need without help
- 70.Like some leaves turning brown in troubled tree
- 71.Like liquid percolating from squishy clay, eh?
- 72.To-do with chairman out of order — old-fashioned tigerish type
- 73.Electronic components? They may give you dangerous shocks
- 74.Society essentially gets the old to disappear
- 75.Security devices in Paraguay interrupting criminal tricks
- 76.Way abusive language has zero content
- 77.After word of greeting, agrees new fees for Maoris?
- 78.Bird's restraint
- 79.Vehicle ascending short road with pothole?
- 80.Old gallery is an attraction
- 81.One with secure home to get tipsy holding celebration with grandma
- 82.Starvation when ill? Somehow sort out drug
- 83.Sealing end of transaction, deposit weak-sounding letters
- 84.Pussy with a longing to eat new flowering plant
- 85.As one trying to sort out problem, help them up hill
- 86.A do sure to be organised for film-makers
- 87.Agreement to double hospital facility before end of decade
- 88.Commercial message has product here finally getting top position
- 89.Extracts metal from mountains — second area for extraction
- 90.Loose garment, prime requirement for the dancing girl
- 91.Composer providing some simple harmony
- 92.Ship's covering, yellow, cut short
- 93.Bear with major constellation
- 94.It flowed out, slipped away, disappeared
- 95.It's a nice way of knowing things
- 96.Fluctus, aestus
- 97.Closely, suitably, properly
- 98.Flatis, halatis
- 99.Pliny's address to Trajan, id omen perfractum? (voc.)
- 100.Underworld entrance; Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus ____ (Aeneid 6.126) (dat.)
- 101.Conventu; public meeting: P. Scipio . . . pro ____ Iugurtham in praetorium abduxit (Sallust, Bell. Iug. 8)
- 102.Citadel; turre, castello, Capitolio
- 103.Cogito, ergo sum? Puto? Habeo? Try a deponent!
- 104.Maxime, praecipue, praesertim
- 105.Having slipped down, fallen (nom. masc. sing.)
- 106.Capio, tollo, arrogo
- 107.I take back, recover
- 108.Just saying hello to you all!
- 109.Let it go, she should leave
- 110.Great fail to make an urgent demand (infin.)
- 111.Werewolves, address the moon!
- 112.Velavi, contexi, vestivi
- 113.Imperial biographer is tenuous, in disarray
- 114.Meanwhile, trainee is confused
- 115.Vigiliarum, tenebrarum
- 116.To emit a smell, non omnes possunt ____ unguenta exotica (Plaut. Most. 42)
- 117.Other ladies (acc.)
- 118.No beginning and no end, nec caput nec ____ (Plautus Asinaria, 3.3.139)
- 119.Medium-to-hot chilli pepper, usually picked while green
- 120.Baked -, dessert of ice cream, sponge cake and meringue
- 121.Small variety of flatfish
- 122.Humanitarian emblem used in Muslim countries
- 123.Sweater extending to just below the chin
- 124.Johnny -, celebrated guitarist formerly of the Smiths
- 125.City where one can visit the Prado art gallery
- 126.Elegy written by Shelley in memory of Keats
- 127.French explorer who navigated the St Lawrence river
- 128.Business operating primarily on the internet
- 129.Newfoundland dog in various works about Peter Pan
- 130.Airport and ex-RAF base to the southeast of London
- 131.Capital city of Trinidad and Tobago
- 132.Biopic in which Will Smith portrayed a boxer
- 133.Urban area of Johannesburg, a former centre of opposition to apartheid
- 134.Five-armed echinoderm
- 135.Biblical widow depicted slaying Holofernes in paintings by Gentileschi and Caravaggio
- 136.African nation whose flag was based on that of the USA
- 137.1984 single often considered Prince's signature song
- 138.MP appointed culture secretary last year
- 139.One of the deadly sins
- 140.Czech composer of the opera The Bartered Bride
- 141.Informally designated pattern of stars
- 142.Actor whose childhood in Swaziland inspired the film Wah-Wah
- 143.Mid-19th-century Californian gold prospector
- 144.Strong European alcoholic spirit
- 145.County town to the west of Glasgow
- 146.Craft in which one may make a valley or mountain fold
- 147.Group of languages invented by JRR Tolkien
- 148.White-billed water bird
- 149.Having kittens means losing heart for home day
- 150.Mostly allegorical poet on writing companion poem, say