Strigiformes v Morporkians

Series 18, Episode 25

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

On Top of Spaghetti

Pinocchio’s time inside Monstro

Clue 2

Adelaide’s Lament

Clue 3

Cocaine scene in ‘Annie Hall’

Clue 4

End with a sneeze

Answer

𓃭 Lion

David 4:13

Kahlo 2:53

Clue 2

Magritte 12:43

Clue 3

Dali 6:55

Clue 4

Artists and times on clock in their paintings

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Year of the titular animal

The Girl With The DRAGON Tattoo, War HORSE, Jojo RABBIT, Crouching TIGER, Hidden DRAGON

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

AK-47 assault rifle: Kalashnikov

Polio vaccine: Salk

Clue 2

The World Wide Web: Berners-Lee and CERN

Clue 3

Three-point safety belt: Bohlin and Volvo

Clue 4

Inventors didn't profit

Answer

𓈗 Water

Eminem samples

Dream On by Aerosmith (Sing For The Moment), Buffalo Gals by Malcolm McLaren and the World's Famous Supreme Team (Without Me), I Got The... by Labi Siffre (My Name Is), Thank You by Dido (Stan)

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

A musical sound
(4×2)

In a fury
(7×2)

Clue 2

Quick light touch
(3×2)

Clue 3

Morally repugnant
(4×2)

Clue 4

Two anagrammatical synonyms

Note/tone, enraged/angered, pat/tap, vile/evil

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

1: typical

2: equivocal

Clue 2

3: functional

Clue 3

4: (e.g.) disestablishmentarianism

Increasing length of negative prefixes. A, un, dys, anti

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

8 on a calculator screen

LED bars on a calculator. 4 bars, 5 bars, 6 bars, 7 bars.

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Sir Humphry Davy

Abominated gravy.

Clue 2

He lived in the odium

Clue 3

Of having discovered sodium.

The first clerihew

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Doctor in the House (7)

Longshanks (8)

Clue 2

Wannabe (9)

Clue 3

(e.g.) I am the Lord your God: you shall have no other gods but me (10)

First of 7 to first of 10. Doctor films, King Edwards, Spice Girls number ones, Ten Commandments.

Answer

𓈗 Water

Opening of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

“Kronenbourg” brewery opens in Strasbourg

Clue 2

Great Plague begins

Clue 3

(e.g.) Great Fire of London

1663-1666

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Jack Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad al-Tikriti

Queen Muhammad Hamza Zubaydi

Clue 2

King Ali Hasan al-Majid al-Tikriti

Clue 3

Ace Saddam Husayn al-Tikriti

"Most-wanted" playing cards during Iraq War

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Papillon

Rule the World

Corbiere

L'Escargot

Grand National winners

Answer

Arkle

Ben Nevis

Foinaven

The Saddle

Scottish mountains

Answer

Bullitt

The Reivers

Le Mans

The Getaway

Steve McQueen films

Answer

Angers

Gap

Nice

Nancy

French towns/cities

Answer

𓈗 Water

Messner

Hillary

Paradis

Whymper

Mountaineers

Answer

Bess

Mamie

Nancy

Lady Bird

First ladies of the US

Answer

George Washington

Manhattan

Throgs Neck

Queensboro

New York City bridges

Answer

Mary Queen of Scots

Brooklyn

Byzantium

Little Women

Films starring Saoirse Ronan

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

They started in Kent

CS RSN VS NFB RTN

CAESAR'S INVASION OF BRITAIN

CV DVR NT

(A) COVID VARIANT

THC HNN LTN NL

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL

GR TXP CTT NS

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Reality shows merged with songs

MDNC HL SD GGR

MADE IN CHELSEA DAGGER

LVS LN DSNT HST RM

LOVE ISLANDS IN THE STREAM

CL BRT YBGB RTH RSNR MS

CELEBRITY BIG BROTHERS IN ARMS

DN CN GNCCB BY

DANCING ON ICE ICE BABY

Artists and subjects they painted at least thirty times

ND YWR HLN DSP CNS

ANDY WARHOL AND SOUP CANS

DG RDG SND BLL RNS

EDGAR DEGAS AND BALLERINAS

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