“And her yes, once said to you, / SHALL be Yes for ____” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Lady’s Yes) |
EVERMORE |
“Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in ____” (Peter Mandelson, after his 2001 re-election as MP for Hartlepool) |
TATTERS |
1943 film, Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite of those he directed |
Shadow Of A Doubt |
1993 biographical drama film directed by Richard Attenborough |
SHADOWLANDS |
A city and its outskirts, especially when measuring population |
urban area |
A thankless wretch |
INGRATE |
A version of this Errol Garner jazz standard was Johnny Mathis’s signature song |
MISTY |
A yoga posture |
ASANA |
Airline noted for stringent security procedures |
El Al |
American singer/songwriter who is the daughter of Ravi Shankar |
Norah Jones |
An earthquake detector |
SEISMOMETER |
An insignificant matter |
small potatoes |
Andean mountain, Earth’s highest outside Asia |
ACONCAGUA |
Ben E King song and a 1985 film starring Wil Wheaton |
Stand by Me |
Body of water between Iceland and Greenland |
Denmark Strait |
British swimmer who won four medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games |
Sharron Davies |
Canadian model who said “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day” |
Linda Evangelista |
Cowes Week is an example of this sporting event |
REGATTA |
Demon who slays seven husbands on their wedding nights in the Book of Tobit |
ASMODEUS |
Director of the 1985 film Ran |
Akira Kurosawa |
Facial decoration; a device to help in leading cattle |
nose ring |
First book of Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall of Pern sci-fi trilogy |
dragonsong |
Generic name, in use since the 18th century, for a British soldier |
Tommy Atkins |