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28/01/2019 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

Ex-Presidents include B Spence & A Waterhouse

C

Fictitious poet-in-residence at Private Eye

D

 

Winona Ryder

 

RIBA

(Royal Institute of British Architects)

 

E J Thribb

 

Wingdings

(special type of Microsoft font)

E

Lincolnshire town where Newton educated

F

Recorded debut album called Frank in 2003

G

Had a hit with Chanson d’Amour

H

German sweet company – maker of gummi bears

 

Grantham

 

Amy Winehouse

 

Manhattan Transfer

 

Haribos

I

Abbreviation for 1914 Act giving extra war powers

J

Bristolian star of To Catch a Thief

K

Napped flannelette - used for nightclothes

L

Between Saskatchewan and Ontario

 

DORA

(Defence of the Realm Act)

 

Cary Grant

 

Winceyette

 

Manitoba

(Canadian province)

M

Barbados’ first PM and name of main airport

N

Government’s Bucks house used by Chancellor

O

Ellan Vannin

P

Latin phrase meaning ‘Caught red-handed’

 

Grantley Adams

 

Dorneywood

 

Isle of Man

(in Manx)

 

‘In  flagrante delicto’

Q

R

Prize won by Loach’s I, Daniel Blake

S

Knife-edged ridge joining main Snowdon ridge

T

 

Doric

(as opposed to Ionic & Corinthian columns)

 

Palme d’Or

(at Cannes film festival in 2016)

 

Crib Goch

 

Sherman tank
               

Win: A – Winona Ryder; D – Wingdings; F – Amy Winehouse; K – Winceyette

Rib: B – RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects); C – E J Thribb; H – Haribos; S – Crib Goch

Grant: E – Grantham; J – Cary Grant; M – Grantley Adams; P – ‘In  flagrante delicto’

Man: G – Manhattan Transfer; L – Manitoba; O – Isle of Man; T – Sherman tank

Dor: I – DORA; N – Dorneywood; Q – Doric; R – Palme d’Or

 

              

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English place names if you add ‘chester’