The questions were
- Often
said to be sworn in anger (4, 6)
- Fast
footwear? (5, 5)
- Acrobatic
airmen (3, 6)
- Risqué
humour (4, 4)
- King
Henry’s song (12)
- The
Duke’s song sounds blue (4, 6)
- Noble
lineage (4, 5)
- A
metallic sulphide discovered by Covelli (6, 6)
- Eco-warriors
(10)
- Type
of North American sorrel (6, 4)
- Achieved
record speed on land and water (8)
- American
finch which sounds like a flag?
(6, 7)
- Flown
for sea sickness (6, 4)
- Stop
sign (3, 5)
- Ascended
the British throne in 1689 (7, 2, 6)
- Northern
Ireland protestant movement founded in 1795 (5, 5)
- International
organisation formed in Switzerland in 1863 (3, 5)
- Bird
of fear and horror (6, 6)
- Unusual
banger seen on menu (5, 5)
- Worn
in a John Ford film (6, 6)
- ’E
gets lowly chore mixing the colour for painters (6, 5)
- Fruit
production arranged in Oman (7, 6)
- Relishes
the risk in loving adventurously?
Quite the opposite. (9,
6)
- Unruly
lad married fragile beauty (3, 7)
- The
answer shouldn’t be in this quiz (5, 6)
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And the answers were as follows
- BLUE
MURDER (colloquial)
- GREEN
FLASH (sports shoe)
- RED
ARROWS (RAF air acrobatic team)
- BLUE
JOKE (colloquial)
- GREENSLEEVES
(song allegedly written by Henry VIII)
- MOOD
INDIGO (song by Duke Ellington)
- BLUE
BLOOD (colloquial)
- INDIGO
COPPER (a sulphide of copper also known as Covelline)
- GREENPEACE
(organisation)
- VIOLET
WOOD (Oxalis violacea)
- BLUEBIRD
(name given to their cars and boats by Malcolm and Donald Campbell)
- INDIGO
BUNTING (American bird of the finch family)
- YELLOW
FLAG (flown by ships to warn of infectious disease)
- RED
LIGHT (traffic signal)
- WILLIAM
OF ORANGE (crowned King William III of England in 1689)
- ORANGE
ORDER (founded after the Battle of the Diamond in 1795, originally as
the Loyal Orange Institution)
- RED
CROSS (the International
Committee of the Red Cross met for the first time in 1863)
- YELLOW
HAMMER (yellow for fear, Hammer for horror)
- GREEN
BEANS (anagram)
- YELLOW
RIBBON (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, film directed by John Ford, 1931)
- YELLOW
OCHRE (anagram)
- MANDARIN
ORANGE (anagram)
- SHRINKING
VIOLET (anagram)
- RED
ADMIRAL (anagram)
- ULTRA
VIOLET (beyond visible spectrum)
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