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29/01/2018 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

Founded by Darryl F Zanuck & Joseph M Schenck

C

NZ Test bowler son of NZ Test bowler

D

 

Skype

(logo of the internet video software company)

 

20th Century Fox

 

Chris Cairns

(son of Lance Cairns)

 

Avro Manchester

E

Area in Australian stores that sells bed and table linen

F

TV programme introduced by Sibelius’ At the Castle Gate from Pelléas et Mélisande

G

Main city of Far North Region of Queensland

H

Oxford dining club famed for trashing restaurants

 

 

The Manchester department

 

The Sky at Night

 

Cairns

 

The Bullingdon Club

(of Cameron, Osborne and Johnson fame);

I

5th of Cambridge 5; worked at Bletchley Park in WW2

J

1968 SFPD film with a famous car chase sequence

K

Coogan/Brydon film about filming Tristram Shandy

L

Wrote Crime and Punishment and The Idiot

 

John Cairncross

 

Bullitt

(starring Steve McQueen)

 

A Cock and Bull Story

 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

M

Australian Prime Minister as at December 2017

N

David Duchovny’s X-Files character

O

Devil’s Point, Ben Macdui, Braeriach; part of Grampians

P

Led by Richard Cobden &  John Bright

 

Malcolm Turnbull

 

Fox Mulder

 

The Cairngorms

(Scottish mountain range)

 

The Manchester School

Q

R

Modest Russian – one of ‘The Five’

S

Home games at Broadhurst Park, Moston

T

 

Mozilla Firefox

(logo of internet browser software company

 

Mussorgsky

(Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer)

 

FC United of Manchester

(NOT Manchester United)

 

Emilia Fox

(actress)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sky/Skye: A - Skype; F - The Sky at Night; L - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; R - Mussorgsky

Fox: B - 20th Century Fox; N - Fox Mulder; Q - Mozilla Firefox; T - Emilia Fox

Cairn: C - Chris Cairns; G - Cairns; I - John Cairncross; O - The Cairngorms

Manchester: D - Avro Manchester; E - The Manchester department; P - The Manchester School; S - FC United of Manchester

Bull: H - The Bullingdon Club; J - Bullitt; K - A Cock and Bull Story; M - Malcolm Turnbull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skye, Fox, Cairn, Manchester and Bull

…. all breeds of UK terrier dogs