| ONCE | "There ___ was a ..." |
| CAMEL | "I'd walk a mile for a ____" was a slogan of this cigarette brand |
| CORRIDORSOFPOWER | "The ____" was a political cliché coined by CP Snow in a novel, and the title of a later one |
| STADE | ___ was a sprint of approximately 200 yards in the Ancient Olympics. Fill in the blank with a word that shares its root with an English term that refers to a sports arena. |
| ELF | A Riley ____ was a more conventional-looking Mini |
| HILL | "High on a __ was a lonely goatherd ..." (lyrics from "The Sound of Music") |
| THECHANGE | ____ was a 2001-4 Radio 4 sitcom about a hormonal wife |
| CRY | The ___ was a recent BBC One drama about a custody battle |
| UTRILLO | Maurice ____ was a French painter of cityscapes, especially of Montmartre, where he was born |
| MORAN | Ronnie ____ was a member of the "Anfield Boot Room", and was Liverpool's caretaker manager twice in the early 1990s |
| NESMITH | Mike ____, was a Monkee and the heir to a typewriter correction fluid fortune |
| CONSORT | In the 17th century, a broken ____ was a group of musicians playing different instruments |
| BLOB | The ____ was a 1958 sci-fi horror film in which a large amoeba-like entity terrorised rural Pennsylvania |
| MAPPIN | John ____ was a founder of a silverware company which later created jewellery for royalty |
| SUE | Which song ("A Boy Named ___") was a hit for Johnny Cash in 1969? (3) |
| PAPA | *___ Was a Rollin' Stone song covered by The Temptations that won a Grammy Award |
| THEPARISCOMMUNE | ____ was a revolutionary government in a European capital city for about two months in 1871 |
| HAPPYCAT | "Eric, being such a ____, was a piece of cake" (Monty Python Fish Licence sketch) |
| EXOTIC | Tiger King, a documentary series about Joe ___, was a big hit for Netflix during the Covid-19 pandemic. (6) |
| EADIE | "___ Was a Lady" (Merman tune) |