| Clues | Answers |
| “And every time I see you ____ / I’m such a happy individual” (You Make Me Feel So Young lyrics) | GRIN |
| “Every artist was first an ____” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | AMATEUR |
| “Well ____! … / There’s little comfort in the wise” (Rupert Brooke, in Tiare Tahiti) | This Side of Paradise |
| 2009 historical novel by Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall |
| A dolphin’s flipper or a duck’s wing | FORELIMB |
| Aardvarks | ANTBEARS |
| Administers a drug, perhaps to enhance athletic performance | DOPES |
| Alternative to “stock” as a name for the undealt part of the pack in card games | TALON |
| Ancient route from Rome to Brindisi | Via Appia |
| Author of the Bryant & May detective stories | Christopher Fowler |
| Barbadian singer with hits including Umbrella and Only Girl (In the World) | RIHANNA |
| British First World War equivalent of one of the two dances in the Nato phonetic alphabet | TOC |
| Budget flight operator based in Swords, Dublin | RYANAIR |
| Captain Charles Edstaston is the central character of ____: Whom Glory Still Adores by George Bernard Shaw | Great Catherine |
| Clothing retailer known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland | primark |
| Country bordered by Nicaragua and Panama | costa rica |
| Crème de ____ is a liqueur made from blackcurrants | CASSIS |
| Derived from a Latin word meaning white, a blank book for the collecting of photographs etc | ALBUM |
| Edible mushroom with honeycombed cap | MOREL |
| Electrically charged particles emitted by very hot material | thermions |
| Feminist whose second daughter wrote Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| First two words of the hymn usually sung to the tune Eventide | abide with |
| Formed a luminous electrical discharge | ARCED |
| Former company which made enamel paints used with model kits | humbrol |
| Former Hull City midfielder who joined Derby County for a second time in 2017 | Tom Huddlestone |
| Former long-distance runner who founded the Great North Run | Brendan Foster |
| Formerly, a European who made a fortune in India | NABOB |
| Humanitarian sometimes called the “British Schindler” | Sir Nicholas Winton |
| In Greek myth, a son of Temenus, and the eponymous subject of a play by Euripides | ARCHELAUS |
| In this Oscar Wilde play, Mrs Erlynne is revealed to be the main protagonist’s mother, not a love rival | Lady Windermere’s Fan |
| Informal description of “duple time” | in two |
| Labour MP for Hartlepool, 1992-2004 | Peter Mandelson |
| Masculine given name in both Welsh and Japanese | DAI |
| More shy | TIMIDER |
| Music magazine which ceased publication in 2000 and was incorporated into NME | Melody Maker |
| Named after the Latin name for Copenhagen, the last of the stable elements to be discovered | HAFNIUM |
| Old name for a domestic bovine animal | NEAT |
| Philip Schofield played Thomas More in stage and film versions of Robert Bolt’s ____ | A Man For All Seasons |
| Player of a kind of saxophone often used by beginners | ALTOIST |
| Russian historian and philosopher who championed reforms by Alexander II, including the emancipation of the serfs | Boris Chicherin |
| Samurai with no master; 1998 film starring Robert De Niro | RONIN |
| Sitcom in which the often mimicked “Ooh, Betty” was only said once | Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em |
| Six of the poems used in Schubert’s Schwanengesang are by Heinrich ____ | HEINE |
| Substance used in baking, and to treat indigestion | bicarbonate of soda |
| Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008 | Bertie Ahern |
| Technical expert advising in a trial or inquiry | ASSESSOR |
| The act of rowing, or associated equipment | OARAGE |
| The clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol | Bob Cratchit |
| The Night Watch is one of ____’s best-known paintings | REMBRANDT |
| The orbital cavity | eye socket |
| Two-humped beast of burden native to the steppes of Central Asia | Bactrian camel |
| Type of mirage, its name derived from Arthurian legend | Fata Morgana |
| Type of read-only memory which can be erased and overwritten | EPROM |
| Vague knowledge or suspicion | INKLING |
| Wilhelm ____ discovered X-rays | ROENTGEN |
| Wolfsbane, or the poison derived from it | ACONITE |
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