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26/06/2017 Connecting Wall The answers can be arranged into 5 groups of 4 whereby each answer in a group has a word or part of a word (sometimes in sound, rather than spelling) in common with the other answers in that group.  The 5 shared words/part-words belong to an overall theme.

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A

B

Year Nero famously played his lyre

C

Kristina Rihanoff’s 6th Strictly partner

D

 

Sergeant Bilko

(from TV’s The Phil Silvers Show)

 

64AD

(during the Great Fire of Rome)

 

John Sergeant

 

Rita Hayworth

E

Robert Parker, Harry Longabaugh, etc

F

Died 2014 - Walford Common

G

Led Zeppelin’s best-selling single

H

1980 play starring Julie Walters

 

The Hole in the Wall gang

(Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid)

 

Lucy Beale

(character from EastEnders)

 

Whole Lotta Love

 

Educating Rita

I

1856-1925: US portrait painter

J

Nawab of Bengal’s Fort William prison

K

Home computer launched 1982

L

US TV Quiz show launched in 1955

 

John Singer Sargent

 

Black Hole of Calcutta

 

Commodore 64

 

The $64,000 Question

M

Year Harold Wilson first became PM

N

Author of Anne of Green Gables

O

Pristina-born X-Factor judge

P

Who sang the theme song from the Bond film Octopussy?

 

1964

 

Lucy M Montgomery

 

Rita Ora

 

Rita Coolidge

(All Time High)

Q

R

Port lying 2.5 miles south of Penzance

S

Desi Arnaz starred in this 1950s TV show

T

 

 Sir Malcolm Sargent

(conductor)

 

Mousehole

(in Cornwall)

 

I Love Lucy

(starring Lucille Ball)

 

Lucy Powell

(MP for Manchester Central)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sergeant (Sargent): A - Sergeant Bilko, C - John Sergeant, I - John Singer Sargent, Q - Sir Malcolm Sargent

64: B - 64AD (during the Great Fire of Rome), K - Commodore 64, L - The $64,000 Question, M - 1964

Rita: D - Rita Hayworth, H - Educating Rita, O - Rita Ora, P - Rita Coolidge

Hole (whole): E - The Hole in the Wall gang, G - Whole Lotta Love, J - Black Hole of Calcutta, R - Mousehole

Lucy: F - Lucy Beale, N - Lucy M Montgomery, S - I Love Lucy, T - Lucy Powell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, When I’m Sixty-four, Lovely Rita, Fixing a Hole, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

(key words from song titles on...)

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

(by The Beatles - released 50 years ago in 1967)