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31/07/2017 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

Michael Caine’s real name

C

BBC Sports Personality of the Year - 2008

D

 

Man Ray

(surrealist artist – here with Salvador Dali)

 

Maurice Micklewhite

 

Chris Hoy

 

Kandinsky

(Composition 8)

E

Rory McIlroy won 2014 Open here

F

Fractional part of logarithm

G

Spurs player; first to be sent off for England

H

Capital of Bahrain

 

Hoylake

 

Mantissa

 

Alan Mullery

 

Manama

I

Managed by Dave Brailsford

J

Bond film with theme song by Adele

K

The proper name for the  lower jawbone

L

Starred as Alfie Wickers in Bad Education

 

Team Sky

(cycling)

 

Skyfall

 

Mandible

 

Jack Whitehall

M

The Tamil for ‘pepper-water’

N

Took over Amstrad in 2007

O

Greek for ‘the many’ or ‘the majority’

P

1977 number 1 hit on flip side of Girl's School

 

Mulligatawny

 

BSkyB

 

Hoi polloi

 

Mull of Kintyre

Q

R

Astronomer; rejected Big Bang theory

S

1942 Oscar for Best Original Song

T

 

White Hart Lane

 

Fred Hoyle

 

White Christmas

 

Mullion

               

Man: A – Man Ray, F – Mantissa, H – Manama, K – Mandible

Wight (White): B – Maurice Micklewhite, L – Jack Whitehall, Q – White Hart Lane, S – White Christmas

Hoy (Hoi): C – Chris Hoy, E – Hoylake, O – Hoi polloi, R – Fred Hoyle

Skye (Sky): D – Kandinsky, I – Team Sky, J – Skyfall, N – BSkyB

Mull: G – Alan Mullery, M – Mulligatawny, P – Mull of Kintyre, T – Mullion

               

Man, Wight, Hoy, Skye and Mull are all

the names of islands off the mainland coast of the British Isles