| ‘I want to ____, and ____, and ____!’ (Vivian Nicholson, after her husband’s £152,000 pools win in 1961) |
SPEND |
| ‘I ____ him, because he is upper class’ (Ronnie Barker, in a 1960s TV sketch) |
look up to |
| 8 on the Beaufort scale |
gale-force |
| A checkup or viva voce |
oral exam |
| A haemorrhagic fever or the virus causing it |
EBOLA |
| A quatrain with rhyming scheme a b a b |
heroic stanza |
| A queen may live here |
HIVE |
| A sauce or pickle adding flavour to food |
RELISH |
| A small case for articles like needles or cosmetics |
ETUI |
| According to the English Heritage website, this cathedral city is the most frequently besieged place in the British Isles |
CARLISLE |
| Act as others think you should, eg by resigning |
do the decent thing |
| After a football goal kick, the ball is not in play until it leaves this area |
penalty box |
| American name for a spittoon |
CUSPIDOR |
| An old informal meaning of ‘corporation’ |
distended belly |
| An x, y or z is this kind of number in traditional algebra |
UNKNOWN |
| Armour protecting the face and eyes |
VISOR |
| Assiettes de charcuterie or informally, body parts |
plates of meat |
| Cause of midday merriness |
liquid lunch |
| Clyde ____ discovered Pluto in 1930 |
TOMBAUGH |
| Daniel Craig stars in this 2008 film about Second World War partisans in German-occupied Poland |
DEFIANCE |
| Dark Sky Island (2015) is this Irish singer’s most recent album |
ENYA |
| Execution by drowning, especially at Nantes during the Reign of Terror |
NOYADE |
| Feature of a normal heart beat, controlled by the sino-atrial node |
sinus rhythm |
| French composer, conductor of the BBCSO, 1971-75 |
Pierre Boulez |
| Frivolous unexpected functionality in computer applications, such as the result of a Google search for ‘Bletchley Park’ |
easter egg |
| Georgia ____’s best-known paintings were of flowers, skyscrapers, and the New Mexico landscape |
O’Keeffe |
| In 1960, Herb ___ of Australia was the last man to set a world record in an Olympic 1500m final |
ELLIOTT |
| In 41A, this is ‘Domingo de Páscoa’ |
Easter Sunday |
| In a state of confusion, supposedly named after an old dispute between City of London livery companies |
at sixes and sevens |
| In geometry, part of a shape cut off by a line or plane intersecting it |
SEGMENT |