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28/09/2009 Connecting Wall The answers can be arranged into 5 groups of 4 whereby each answer in a group contains a word or part of a word (sometimes in sound, rather than spelling) that has something in common with the other answers in that group.  The 5 shared words/part-words belong to an overall theme and you must identify this theme.

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A

Manchester City Goalkeeper who died in the Munich aircrash

B

C

Italian-born British medical pioneer

D

 

Frank Swift

 

Hawkeye

(played by Alan Alda in M.A.S.H.)

 

Florence Nightingale

 

Hawkeye

(the TV replay device)

E

1950s radio sitcom starring Jon Pertwee and Leslie Phillips

F

Vaughan Williams piece inspired by George Meredith poem

G

1991 Kevin Costner film

H

Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about emperor and a  mechanical toy

 

The Navy Lark

 

The Lark Ascending

 

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

 

The Nightingale

I

Comic - junior companion to The Eagle

J

C R Milne

K

Longest serving Radio 1 presenter

L

Flora Thompson trilogy of novels

 

The Swift

 

Christopher Robin

(son of author A A Milne)

 

Annie Nightingale

 

Lark Rise to Candleford

M

Interviewer abandoned by John Nott

N

Tournament system in which everyone plays one another

O

Defunct Coventry-based car maker

P

1904 - 69 American Jazz saxophonist

 

Robin Day

(Nott stormed out of TV interview)

 

Round-robin

 

Swift Motors

 

Coleman ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins

Q

R

1940 Vera Lynn hit song written by Eric Maschwitz

S

Name for a plasterer’s slab

T

Meaning of the French word ‘alouette’

 

Clive Swift

(actor in Keeping Up Appearances)

 

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

 

A hawk

 

Skylark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swift - A I O Q

Lark - E F L T

Robin - G J M N

Nightingale - C H K R

Hawk - B D P S

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...are all names of ...

Britsh birds