Also Rans v Video Nasties

Series 19, Episode 23

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

A university town in Hesse

A forest in Uganda

Clue 2

A river in Zaire

Clue 3

“Crown” in Latin

Clue 4

Origins of names of viruses

Marburg, Zika, Ebola, Corona

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Mythical: (e.g.) China, Egypt

Botanical: (e.g.) Lebanon, Ireland

Clue 2

Animal: (e.g.) Australia, Germany

Clue 3

Flag (e.g.) UK, Switzerland

Clue 4

National tail fins

Phoenix/Eye of Horus, Cedar/Shamrock, Kangaroo/Crane, UK Flag/Swiss flag

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Simon & Garfunkel Songs

BABY DRIVER, MRS (Mary) ROBINSON, The BOXER, BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Fanatic telephone hacker

Excess flesh excellent

Clue 2

Not many thank goodness

Clue 3

Young female horse nickname for city in Pennsylvania

Clue 4

F & Ph

Freak/Phreak, Fat/Phat, Few/Phew, Filly/Philly

Answer

𓈗 Water

King Victor II

Author of “Murder in a Minor Key”

Clue 2

Second son of the 15th Duke of Denver

Clue 3

The Priest of St Mary, Kembleford

Clue 4

Amateur detectives

King and Joker series, Jessica Fletcher (Murder She Wrote), Lord Peter Wimsey, Father Brown

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Motown artists

STEVIE Knows by Olly Murs, LEVI STUBBS' Tears by Billy Bragg, When SMOKEY Sings by ABC, MARVIN GAYE by Charlie Puth ft. Meghan Trainor

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

Various

Gaseous

Clue 2

Caesium

Clue 3

(e.g.) abstention

A_IOU, AE_OU, AEI_U, AEIO_

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Robert Freeman (semaphore)

Robert Freeman (stretched image)

Clue 2

Klaus Voormann (black and white collage/drawing)

Clue 3

Peter Blake (collage)

Beatles album covers. Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Huascaran

Monte Pissis

Clue 2

Ojos del Salado

Clue 3

Aconcagua

Highest mountains in South America

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Labyrinth

Spring Yard

Clue 2

Marble

Clue 3

Green Hill

Zones in "Sonic The Hedgehog"

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

King on C3

Monarchs as chess squares. Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II, Charles III.

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

4th: Trevor Nunn

3rd: Richard Eyre

Clue 2

2nd: Peter Hall

Clue 3

1st: Laurence Olivier

Artistic Directors of the Royal National Theatre

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Hunch

Stoop

Duck

Squat

Ways of lowering one's body

Answer

Crouch

Hardy

Litvinenko

Casanova

David Tennant roles

Answer

Pig

Bunny

Coyote

Gonzales

Looney Tunes surnames

Answer

Doctor

Baronet

Radon

Road

Abbreviated as their first and last letters

Answer

𓈗 Water

Baker

Bond

Cannon

Old

___ Street stations on the London Underground

Answer

Blanc

Asriel

Blomkvist

Hughes

Daniel Craig roles

Answer

Den

Lair

Hatcher

Eel

PMs minus their first letters

Answer

Burrow

Lodge

Holt

Warren

Animal shelters

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Tableware

YST RKNF

OYSTER KNIFE

CR NNTH CBH LDR

CORN ON THE COB HOLDER

WN KLPC KR

WINKLE PICKER

TS TNGF RK

TOASTING FORK

Not tableware

TNN GFRK

TUNING FORK

FLYN GS CR

FLYING SAUCER

CR WN GRNB WLS

CROWN GREEN BOWLS

TCT NCP LTS

TECTONIC PLATES

Their surnames rhyme (pretty much) with supermarkets

PT RC PLD

PETER CAPALDI

VN SSH DGNS

VANESSA HUDGENS

TMM RVLR DDL

TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

JHN NYM RR

JOHNNY MARR

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