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25/09/2017 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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Format index

 

A

B

US President with English as 2nd language

C

High Society song and TV quiz show

D

 

WHO

(World Health Organisation)

 

Martin van  Buren

(Dutch was his first language)

 

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

 

Arlene Foster

leader of the DUP)

E

Tom Sharpe novel based in Cambridge

F

Who wrote the song Old Folks at Home?

G

Oxfordshire village with brewery

H

Ministerial role of MP Jake Berry

 

Porterhouse Blue

 

Stephen Foster

 

Hook Norton

 

(Minister for)

Northern Powerhouse

I

Founded Joy Division with Sumner

J

French Windward island

K

Sequel to Game, Set and Match

L

Taylor/Burton  film based on Albee play

 

Peter Hook

 

Martinique

 

Hook, Line and Sinker

(Spy trilogy by Len Deighton)

 

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

M

Designed Millau Viaduct

N

Chest high cricket shot to square leg

O

Ibsen play adapted as Losey film

 

P

Northern terminus of Piccadilly Line

 

Norman Foster

 

Hook (shot)

 

The Doll’s House

 

Cockfosters

Q

R

Writer who inspired On Wenlock Edge

S

In which Hoskins plays Toon-hating PI

T

 

Martin Škrtel

(former Liverpool central defender)

 

A E Housman

(VW music based on A Shropshire Lad)

 

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

Martina Hingis

               

Who: A – WHO (World Health Organisation); C – Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; L – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?; S – Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Martin: B – Martin van Buren;  J – Martinique; Q – Martin Škrtel; T – Martina Hingis

Foster: D – Arlene Foster; F Stephen Foster; M – Norman Foster; P – Cockfosters

House: E – Porterhouse Blue;  H – (Minister for) Northern Powerhouse; O – The Doll’s House; R – A E Housman

Hook: G – Hook Norton;  I – Peter Hook; K – Hook, Line and Sinker; N – Hook

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor Who (TV drama), Doc Martin (TV drama), Doctor Foster (TV drama and nursery rhyme), Doctor Gregory House (from US TV drama House) and Doctor Hook (musician)

…. all Doctors….