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26/02/2018 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

Stop between Finchley Road and St John’s Wood

C

Canaan as described by God to Moses in Exodus

D

 

Peter Ustinov

(in 1942 Will Hay film

The Goose Steps Out)

 

Swiss Cottage

(on the Jubilee line)

 

“Land of Milk and Honey”

 

The Maltese Falcon

E

Former Dorset  game-keeper's lodge & site of C4 show

F

1970s TV drama with theme music Nunc Dimittis by Geoffrey Burgon

G

Nickname of Northampton Town FC

H

First Russian to gain 8th dan of black belt in judo

 

River Cottage

(used for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall programmes)

 

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

 

The Cobblers

 

Vladimir Putin

I

Yiddish for clarified chicken fat - sentimental music/art

J

Arts complex used for Aldeburgh Festival

K

Said: “Population is limited by means of subsistence”

L

Early computer language devised by Grace Hopper

 

Schmaltz

 

Snape Maltings

(festival founded by Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears)

 

Thomas Malthus

 

COBOL

M

London football ground closest to the Thames

N

Where you’d find Llareggub

O

Nestlé’s UK equivalent of Oum le Dauphin Blanc?

P

Host of Juke Box Jury and Any Questions?

 

Craven Cottage

(home to Fulham FC)

 

Under Milk Wood

(name of Welsh village in Dylan Thomas’ poem);

 

The Milky Bar Kid

 

David Jacobs

Q

R

Gay San Francisco official murdered in 1978 by Dan White

S

UK government crisis response committee

T

 

Austin Healey

(former England Rugby player)

 

Harvey Milk

 

COBRA

(Cabinet Office Briefing Room)

 

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage

               

Tin: A - Peter Ustinov; F - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; H - Vladimir Putin; Q - Austin Healey

Cottage: B - Swiss Cottage; E - River Cottage; M - Craven Cottage; T - Anne Hathaway’s Cottage

Milk: C - “Land of Milk and Honey”; N - Under Milk Wood; O - The Milky Bar Kid; R - Harvey Milk

Malt: D - The Maltese Falcon; I – Schmaltz; J - Snape Maltings; K - Thomas Malthus

Cob: G - The Cobblers; L – COBOL; P - David Jacobs; S – COBRA

               

Tin, Cottage, Milk, Malt and Cob are all types of ….

Loaf