| “Don’t use Latin phrases unless you know what they mean, and ____” (joke) |
vice versa |
| “Simplicity is the final ____. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” (Chopin) |
ACHIEVEMENT |
| “The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly ____” (Sir James Mackintosh) |
INACTIVITY |
| 2018 Christmas film based on a Dr Seuss character |
The Grinch |
| 5-shilling pieces |
CROWNS |
| A Christmas theatre performance |
PANTOMIME |
| A heavenly body whose apparent brightness fluctuates |
variable star |
| A popular Christmas present for children in the 1940s |
LEGO |
| A rich cake, often layered |
GATEAU |
| Actor who rose to fame as Ron Weasley |
Rupert Grint |
| An alternative to yew for making bows |
ELM |
| Austrian composer noted for his very short pieces |
Anton Webern |
| Author of the Horatio Hornblower novels |
C S Forester |
| Character played by Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz |
The Wicked Witch of the West |
| Christmas |
NATIVITY |
| Christmas carol with a melody by Mendelssohn, taken from a cantata celebrating Gutenberg |
Hark The Herald Angels Sing |
| Citrus fruit often associated with Christmas |
satsuma orange |
| Computer data retained for likely reuse |
cache storage |
| Discharged from the army, informally |
DEMOBBED |
| Display stands for knick-knacks |
ETAGERES |
| Effectively dealt with, informally |
SORTED |
| Eponymous boy of a 1762 treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
EMILE |
| Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, or vice versa |
SYNECDOCHE |
| French epic poem, usually about knightly exploits |
chanson de geste |
| French translator Antoine Gallard added Ali Baba and Aladdin to this story collection |
One Thousand And One Nights |
| Gelatinous confection also called lokum |
turkish delight |
| Harry Potter ____ was one of the most popular Christmas films of 2001 |
and the Philosopher’s Stone |
| Herbaceous perennial also called fox’s brush |
red valerian |