| … and what Ronnie Barker actually wanted |
handles for forks |
| “All ____s are good except the tiresome kind” (Voltaire) |
STYLE |
| “Friends and colleagues all ____ looked at us, treated us, slightly differently” (Neil Armstrong) |
of a sudden |
| “Not half so swift the ____ doves can fly / When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky” (Pope) |
TREMBLING |
| A person given counsel |
ADVISEE |
| About two thirds of the grapes in France’s “black wine” of Cahors are of this variety |
MALBEC |
| Actor who played Private Pike in Dad’s Army |
Ian Lavender |
| Aviation pioneer with a brother called Wilbur |
Orville Wright |
| Beef steak fillet named after a French author |
CHATEAUBRIAND |
| Birthstone for the month of May |
EMERALD |
| Britain’s southernmost city |
TRURO |
| British golfer who was ranked world No 1 for a total of 97 weeks |
Nick Faldo |
| Cartoon dog first featured in the Daily Mail in 1963 |
Fred Basset |
| Charlton Heston’s co-star in the 1961 epic El Cid |
Sophia Loren |
| Comedian who popularised the word “zit” in Britain and played the curmudgeonly Sykesy in The Archers last year |
Jasper Carrott |
| Copper ore sometimes used ornamentally |
MALACHITE |
| Don Knotts received five Emmy awards for playing this deputy sheriff |
Barney Fife |
| Drainage area occupying around 10 per cent of Africa’s area |
Nile Basin |
| Eliopsomo is a Greek variety of this Mediterranean food |
olive bread |
| French car manufacturer, nationalised in 1945 and privatised in 1996 |
RENAULT |
| From Latin for “nest”, focuses of infection in medicine |
niduses |
| Having no date for resumption |
sine die |
| If I ____, I don’t know how to answer or what to do |
am stumped |
| In a famous sketch, that offered by Ronnie Corbett … |
four candles |
| In Jane Austen’s Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates’s ____ |
NIECE |