| SLITHYTOVES | “’Twas brillig, and the ____ ...” (Jabberwocky) |
| HAUSFRAU | The German equivalent of “’er indoors” |
| GYRE | "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did ____ and gimble in the wabe" (Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll) |
| JABBERWOCKY | Poem of nonsense verse by Lewis Carroll that begins "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe' |
| CARROLL | *"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..." |
| TWAS | "___ brillig, and the slithy toves..." ("Jabberwocky") |
| ACEOFDIAMONDS | “The Card Sharp with the ____” is a Georges la Tour painting in the Louvre |
| UNKNOWABLE | “Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____” (Devil’s Dictionary) |
| LUKEWARM | “Modesty is the virtue of the ____” (Jean-Paul Sartre) |
| NINTH | The “curse of the ____” is a classical music superstition associated with Gustav Mahler |
| IMPROBABLE | “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the ____” (HL Mencken) |
| THINKER | Milton’s poem title Il Penseroso means “The ____” |
| QUIVIVE | “On the ____” means in a state of alertness |
| CHEESEGRATER | London’s Leadenhall Building is informally known as “the ____” |
| NAUGHTIESTGIRL | Elizabeth Allen is “The ____” in a series of four novels by Enid Blyton |
| ONION | “The ____” is a nickname for London’s (South Bank) City Hall |
| ATOM | The Acorn ____’s successor became the BBC Micro in 1981 |
| NERNST | German chemist Walther ____’s heat theorem is a partial statement of the third law of thermodynamics and won him a 1920 Nobel prize |
| MAPPLETHORPE | In the 1970s, Robert ____’s photography focused on the gay sexual subculture of New York |
| NONEVENT | “I’ve figured out that the ‘____’ is the best part of life” (Jerry Seinfeld) |
