Yorkers v Wayfarers

Series 11, Episode 26

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Two UK #1 artists: Manic Street Preachers

Two elements: Platinum

Clue 2

Two Greek letters: Upsilon

Clue 3

Two countries: Somalia

Clue 4

Names within names

Cher, Tin, Psi, Mali

Answer

𓃭 Lion

___ Lion

___zilla

Clue 2

DJ ___adelic

Clue 3

___ D-O-Double-G

Clue 4

Snoop

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Named after cabinet members

Sydney (after Viscount Sydney), Peelers (after Sir Robert Peel), a belisha beacon (after Leslie Hore-Belisha), an Anderson shelter (John Anderson)

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Country: South Africa

County: Northamptonshire

Clue 2

UK region: East Anglia

Clue 3

US state: West Virginia

Clue 4

No current directional counterparts

Answer

𓈗 Water

Summer

Summer Madness by Kool & The Gang, Summer by Vivaldi, Theme from A Summer Place, Summertime by Sidney Bechet

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

“blending”

“changing”

Clue 2

“like smoke”

Clue 3

“light-dark”

Clue 4

Renaissance painting modes

Cangiante, unione, sfumato, chiaroscuro

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

(e.g.) Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) by Benny Hill

Prime ministers' Desert Island Discs. John Arlott's commentary (John Major), Wishing Well by Free (Tony Blair), The 23rd Psalm in Gaelic (Gordon Brown), Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) by Benny Hill (David Cameron)

Answer

𓃭 Lion

1:0 was 1

0:1 was 1½

Clue 2

0:0 was 2

Clue 3

(e.g.) 1:1 was 3

Football pools

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

4th: audio

3rd: lego

Clue 2

2nd: video

Clue 3

(e.g.) 1st: amo

Latin verb conjugations

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Battle of the Golden Spurs

Orangemen’s Day

Clue 2

Live Aid

Clue 3

(e.g.) Storming of the Bastille

11th to 14th July

Answer

𓈗 Water

Never (Lear)

Techno (2 Unlimited)

Clue 2

Education (Blair)

Clue 3

(e.g.) Infamy (Caesar)

Epizeuxis

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

1: blood

Ten Plagues of Egypt

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Humber

Singer

Wolseley

Triumph

Former car marques

Answer

Millennium

MaddAddam

Sprawl

The Divine Comedy

Literary trilogies

Answer

Charles

Vasco da Gama

Golden Gate

Great Belt

Bridges

Answer

Buffalo

Table

Polo

Tower

Water ___

Answer

𓈗 Water

Lepanto

Trafalagar

Salamis

Midway

Naval battles

Answer

Esmara

Tu

F&F

George

Supermarket clothing brands

Answer

Syntagma

Red

Wenceslas

Tiananmen

Squares

Answer

League

Water

Times

Operating

___ table

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Former European monarchs

KN GJ NCRL SFS PN

KING JUAN CARLOS OF SPAIN

QNB TR XFT HN THR LND S

QUEEN BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS

KN GZG FL BN

KING ZOG OF ALBANIA

P RNCR NR FMN C

PRINCE RAINIER OF MONACO

Patron saints and what they are patrons of

CRS PNN DCB BLRS

CRISPIN AND COBBLERS

LKN DDC TRS

LUKE AND DOCTORS

FRN CSF SSS NDN MLW LFR

FRANCIS OF ASSISI AND ANIMAL WELFARE

VLN TNN DBK PNG

VALENTINE AND BEEKEEPING

First words of Shakespeare plays

WH NSH LLW TH RMTGN

WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN?

FM SCBT HFDFL VPL YN

IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON

NWS THW NTRF RDSC NTNT

NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT

TWH SHL DSB TH LKND GNTY

TWO HOUSEHOLDS, BOTH ALIKE IN DIGNITY

Tie-break

P HTF NS H

PHOTO FINISH

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