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- 1.Electrically-propelled cable-car
- 2.English physician who devised a classified list of synonyms
- 3.Enteric 15 Down with a rash of rose-coloured spots
- 4.Eurasian duck found in marshes and swamps
- 5.Extreme state of excitement
- 6.Flat saucer-shaped disc
- 7.French military cap
- 8.Garden species of plants of the genera Silene and Lychnis
- 9.Glass-annealing oven
- 10.In north-west France, a Calvinist stronghold in the 16th century
- 11.King of Judah in mid-9th century BC
- 12.More common spelling for a Muslim mystic
- 13.Mr Masterley, cartoon character in Daily Telegraph
- 14.Paraguayan tea
- 15.Practical joke, a leg-pull
- 16.Rev W. A. --, noted perpetrator of transposition of initial sounds
- 17.Revved up an engine
- 18.Scrooges former partner whose ghost appears in A Christmas Carol
- 19.Shingle spit on the Dorset coast
- 20.Short musical composition
- 21.Slang word meaning enormous or very good
- 22.Solution of ammonium carbonate used as smelling salts
- 23.Spiced herring fillet
- 24.The largest city in Minnesota
- 25.Was in a dull or stupefied state
- 26.Word from French meaning at the home or establishment of
- 27.The -- -- or Iron Henry, fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
- 28.-- Glennie, Scottish percussion player
- 29.2000 romantic comedy drama film starring Piper Perabo
- 30.Author of Animal Farm
- 31.Ballet skirt
- 32.Black-capped migratory bird
- 33.Comedy play by Noel Coward
- 34.District in south London mainly in the borough of Lambeth
- 35.Feline also known as the bobcat
- 36.French word for England
- 37.Instrument for measuring refractive indices
- 38.Killer whale genus
- 39.Latin phrase meaning entirely or completely
- 40.Mythological dog with three heads
- 41.Newspaper having a format between broadsheet and tabloid
- 42.Plant fibres woven into linen cloth
- 43.Residential district, part of the London borough of Barnet
- 44.Roger --, author of the Mr Men books
- 45.Shoulder-covering made in Scotland
- 46.Skiing slang for gluey half-melted snow
- 47.Smart and fashionable
- 48.Soft creamy cheese named after a town in northern France
- 49.Suburb of south Paris with an international airport
- 50.Tree used in the manufacture of cricket bats
- 51.US country singer/songwriter 1923-53
- 52.Venerable saint who was a monk, theologian and historian
- 53.Weapon consisting of two short sticks joined by a length of chain
- 54.Wiltshire town south-west of Melksham
- 55.1926 novel by Sinclair Lewis awarded Pulitzer Prize
- 56.1980 hit for Olivia Newton-John
- 57.Ahabs successor who slew Jezebel
- 58.Capital of Alberta, Canada
- 59.Ceremonial staff of office
- 60.Deny any connection with
- 61.Female character in the pantomime Aladdin
- 62.Football club based in Amsterdam
- 63.Make progress through the water
- 64.Mammals without teeth
- 65.Member of an organisation for girls
- 66.Parish about four miles north-east of Cambridge
- 67.Part of speech, a doing word
- 68.Pit with a vertical stake in the middle
- 69.Poetic name for a district of Greece
- 70.Province in north-east South Africa
- 71.River rising in central Ethiopia
- 72.Rock hollow in desert area in Australia possibly containing water
- 73.Scottish general and companion of Macbeth
- 74.Secret Greek Cypriot organisation
- 75.Sir Anthony --, 1913-89, actor and theatrical producer
- 76.South African wind named because it was believed to blow germs away
- 77.State of quiet restfulness
- 78.Tashkent is the capital of this Asian country
- 79.Thresher, large long-tailed voracious fish
- 80.Title character in Bram Stokers gothic terror novel
- 81.Town in Blaenau Gwent county borough
- 82.Twining woody climbing-plant of genus of the same name
- 83.Jules Vernes -- -- -- --, 1967 sci-fi comedy film
- 84.Alfred --, French army officer falsely accused of providing military secrets to Germans
- 85.Another name for potassium carbonate
- 86.Arm of the sea with strong currents, especially sea between Euboea and Boeotia in classical Greece
- 87.Barrow or burial mound
- 88.Blood poisoning
- 89.Camille -- - --, 1835-1921, French composer
- 90.Channel separating Tasmania from Australian mainland
- 91.Christian descendant of the ancient Egyptians
- 92.City in Lower Burgundy
- 93.Complex of European countries under the rule of a Frankish or German king
- 94.Elisha Graves --, 1811-61, US elevator inventor
- 95.Force to suffer (something unpleasant)
- 96.Group members feeling of mutual loyalty
- 97.Hebrew name for God
- 98.Highland region in eastern USA
- 99.Inaccurate use of a name
- 100.Jezebels husband (OT)
- 101.Language of a people of Japan who are generally taller than most Japanese
- 102.Lilian Mary --, 1874-1937, English theatrical manager
- 103.Mostly low-lying region of northern France
- 104.Pen name of Charlotte Bronte
- 105.Rudolf --, 1879-1972, US pianist and composer born in Prague
- 106.Small-time criminal
- 107.Song associated with Victoria Wood
- 108.The only English pope
- 109.Traditional social ideals of the USA
- 110.Unexpected result of natural forces that could not be prevented
- 111.-- of the Dump, childrens book by Clive King
- 112.-- Bridge, village near Commando Memorial
- 113.-- Warhol, 1928-87, a pioneer of Pop Art
- 114.1960 hit for Ray Charles
- 115.Awkward adolescence
- 116.Bidding system in bridge
- 117.Bobby --, 1943-2008, US world champion chess player
- 118.Derived SI unit of electric charge
- 119.Dumplings used to garnish soup
- 120.English author of Original Sin
- 121.English aviator, author of Biggles books
- 122.Frederick --, author of The Dogs of War
- 123.French dramatist whose plays include Rhinoceros
- 124.Greek epic poem attributed to Homer
- 125.Hindu loincloth
- 126.Hot dry Alpine wind blowing down a mountain valley
- 127.Incarnation of Vishnu
- 128.Island in the north-west of the Canary Islands
- 129.Lively, energetic person, or a swindler
- 130.Low oven-shaped fumarole
- 131.Of an order issued by government
- 132.Roman historian and orator famous as a prose stylist
- 133.Russian river flowing into the Arctic; is in eye (anag.)
- 134.Scottish word meaning near the house
- 135.Second-longest river in Spain
- 136.Sixth month of Jewish ecclesiastical year
- 137.Small obvious part of a much larger problem
- 138.Son of Abraham and Hagar in the Old Testament
- 139.Stable, reliable person
- 140.Sweet cicely
- 141.Thwarted by a blocking situation in golf
- 142.Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian, known collectively as the -- emperors of Rome
- 143.-- Beach, city and coastal resort in South Carolina
- 144.-- Cassidy, fictional cowboy created by Clarence E. Mulford
- 145.1967 hit for Aretha Franklin
- 146.1994 film starring Jim Carrey
- 147.A. Damon --, US short-story writer, author of Guys and Dolls
- 148.Anglicised Celtic mans name
- 149.Another name for nicotinic acid
- 150.Bar-shaped structure that prevents parts moving apart, e.g. in a vehicle