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- 1.-- Waltz, the signature song of Patti Page
- 2.-- beat, a syncopated rhythm widely used in rock music
- 3.1973 horror film starring Deborah Walley and Paul Carr
- 4.1992 film starring Al Pacino and Chris ODonnell
- 5.Andrew --, American chef and television personality
- 6.Any of a genus of plants of the mallow family often having lobed leaves and solitary bell-shaped flowers
- 7.Capital of Bahrain
- 8.City near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, in California
- 9.Coniferous tree
- 10.Genus of plants and shrubs with clusters of very small, brightly-coloured, four-petal flowers
- 11.Heraldic star with wavy points
- 12.Horace --, character created by the writer and barrister John Mortimer
- 13.In the Old Testament, the second son of Jacob and Leah
- 14.Ingemar --, Swedish alpine ski racer who won two gold medals at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Games
- 15.Largest city in Scotland
- 16.London West End theatre
- 17.Musical based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs
- 18.Novel by Edna OBrien, published in 1972
- 19.Port on the Atlantic coast of Brazil
- 20.Psychoactive alkaloid used as an experimental treatment for drug and alcohol addiction
- 21.Republic of Ireland county
- 22.Son of Leontes in Shakespeares The Winters Tale
- 23.Synthetic fibre characterised by its ability to recover its original form after stretching
- 24.The hero of stories by G.K. Chesterton
- 25.The muscular third stomach of a ruminant animal
- 26.The sixth planet from the Sun
- 27.Ulysses S. --, the 18th President of the United States
- 28.West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury (639-709)
- 29.1896 opera by Puccini
- 30.1952 epic swashbuckling adventure film starring Robert Taylor
- 31.Affecting an oily charm
- 32.Capital of Uganda during period of British rule
- 33.Desert in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
- 34.Dwight --, American country singer and songwriter
- 35.Edith --, author of The House of Mirth
- 36.Entertainer with noisy shoes
- 37.Feline with a thin curly coat
- 38.Jewish Day of Atonement
- 39.Last of the twelve judges in the Book of Judges
- 40.Leon --, Baron -- of Spennithorne
- 41.Living both on land and in the water
- 42.Lower parts of duets
- 43.Male of a small species of deer
- 44.Meat, cake or souffle mixture served rolled up containing a filling
- 45.Mountainous island in central Philippines
- 46.Name in pastoral poetry for a shepherdess or country girl
- 47.Official of a mosque who calls the faithful to prayer
- 48.Prevent from accomplishing something
- 49.Refined incisive wit
- 50.Roman magistrate whose ancestors had never held office
- 51.Samuel --, 1780-1838, English philanthropist
- 52.Saturn satellite thought to be composed mainly of ice
- 53.Scandinavian spirit flavoured with caraway seeds
- 54.Sir -- Campbell, Scottish Liberal Democrat politician
- 55.Slot for receiving mail
- 56.Stew containing green Indian corn and beans
- 57.Swedens oldest university is in this city
- 58.Active volcano on Sicily
- 59.All the birdlife of a region
- 60.Ancient city on River Tigris destroyed in 7th and 8th centuries AD
- 61.Belief that the mind possesses some ideas that are inborn
- 62.Bruce --, US singer and songwriter
- 63.Dummy cannon used to deceive an enemy
- 64.Electronic junk mail
- 65.Fattened liver of a duck or goose
- 66.Forward upper end of a sail that sets with a boom
- 67.Humped Asian ox
- 68.In classical mythology the god of the underworld
- 69.Instrument for measuring illumination
- 70.Italian composer of The Fountains of Rome
- 71.Known fraction of a whole
- 72.Minute aquatic animals
- 73.Moved with a curving trajectory
- 74.Near shore of Lake Baikal, chief city in Siberia
- 75.North American shrub of the genus Ilex
- 76.Poem by John Keats
- 77.Policy laid down by political leaders
- 78.Red or white Spanish table wine
- 79.Relating to a diagrammatic representation
- 80.Rest satisfied without raising any objection
- 81.Seaside resort in West Sussex
- 82.Small building in garden for sitting in in good weather
- 83.South American skunk
- 84.Storms or takes by force
- 85.Tree with hand-shaped leaves
- 86.Tropical evergreen tree yielding gamboge and mangosteen
- 87.West African country, capital Yaounde
- 88.Love for --, novel by H. E. Bates
- 89.1997 monster horror film starring Matthew Broderick
- 90.Bunched tuft of branches, roots or fibres
- 91.Capital of Turkey
- 92.Chief commercial ore of aluminium
- 93.Form of Japanese verse also known as linked verse
- 94.Interjection used in place of yes
- 95.International motor-race
- 96.Japanese container with several compartments for sushi or cold food
- 97.Joshua --, 1917-99, Zimbabwean politician
- 98.Milky or creamy alcoholic liquor
- 99.Naturally-occurring amino acid
- 100.Of a dish, served with white grapes
- 101.Of a system of belief
- 102.Old Testament spelling of Jehovah
- 103.Organism that lives in absence of free oxygen
- 104.Owners of inns or restaurants in Italy
- 105.Poem by Schiller set to music by Beethoven
- 106.Rare word meaning laughing or merry
- 107.Robert -- --, US film actor in Taxi Driver
- 108.Scottish essayist and historian whose works include Sartor Resartus
- 109.Search through every part
- 110.Sir Trevor --, English international footballer who became a football administrator
- 111.Sixth President of the USA
- 112.Small town in Northumberland east of Morpeth
- 113.South-west English counties, especially Dorset, in Thomas Hardys works
- 114.Sports competition in North America
- 115.Wild impassioned choral hymn in ancient Greece
- 116.-- Is My Washpot, autobiography by Stephen Fry
- 117.1932 WWI romantic drama film starring Gary Cooper
- 118.1939 period romantic drama film starring Vivien Leigh
- 119.Airport in West Sussex near Crawley
- 120.Angle between leaf and stem
- 121.Author of The Moon and Sixpence
- 122.Capital of Belarus
- 123.Capital of Brandenburg state in Germany
- 124.City near border with Portugal in south-west Spain
- 125.Claude --, 1862-1918, French composer
- 126.Dish made of thin fillets of usually chicken
- 127.Emil --, Czech athlete, gold medallist
- 128.Former name of Belize
- 129.Hypothetical explosion some believe to be the origin of the universe
- 130.Jimmy --, US tennis player
- 131.Johannes --, c1260-c1327, German theologian and mystic
- 132.Josiah --, 1754-1827, English potter
- 133.Long-running comic strip in The Beano
- 134.Mary --, fashion designer mainly in 1960s
- 135.Old-fashioned word for lead
- 136.Pendulous double chin
- 137.Prefix from German denoting an archetypal example
- 138.Ralph Waldo --, US poet
- 139.RC canonical hour taking place at sixth hour of the day, i.e. midday
- 140.Rev Wilbert --, author of Thomas the Tank Engine books
- 141.Royal or state treasury
- 142.Series of 30 requiem masses in RC church
- 143.Small indefinite quantity
- 144.Theatres for musical concerts in ancient Greece and Rome
- 145.Thickened, separated into lumps
- 146.-- Picasso, Spanish painter
- 147.-- Shield, another name for the Canadian Shield
- 148.After defeating Mark Antony, he became the first emperor of Rome
- 149.Athenian leader who was responsible for the construction of the Parthenon
- 150.Capital of Estonia