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28/10/2019 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

Arrested at Heathrow  8/6/68 & extradited

 

C

Volleyball venue for 2012 Olympics

 

D

 

Mishal Husain

 

James Earl Ray

(murderer of Martin Luther King)

 

Earl’s Court

 

Rudolph Walker

E

Royal Artillery Captain in WWI & Chief Bank Clerk

F

In the Midnight Hour was his greatest hit

G

In 2003 the Ace of Spade

H

Newcastle area; means

‘marsh by the Wall’

 

 

Sergeant (Arthur) Wilson

(from Dad’s Army)

 

Wilson Pickett

 

Saddam Hussein

(US army’s cards of ‘wanted’ Iraqi men)

 

Walker

(‘wal carr’; the ‘Wall’ is Hadrian’s Wall)

I

Salford-based; mother of Billy & Joan, wife of Jack

J

Robert L May’s most famous animal creation

 

K

Count Basie called him World’s greatest pianist

 

L

Nobel Peace Prize winner 1919

 

Annie Walker

(landlady in Coronation Street)

 

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer

 

Earl Hines

 

(President) Woodrow Wilson

(for setting up League of Nations)

M

4th wife was Lisa Najeeb Halaby

 

N

Made Deputy leader of the NSDAP in 1933

O

2018 World XI Captain in Soccer Aid match

P

Replaced Bill Turnbull in 2016

 

 

King Hussein of Jordan

 

Rudolf Hess

(NSDAP = German Nazi party)

 

Usain Bolt

(match held at Old Trafford)

 

Dan Walker

(as host of BBC’s Breakfast show)

Q

R

Married poet Mary Baldwin in 1940

 

S

Jackson’s of Piccadilly’s bergamot product

 

T

 

The Walker Art Gallery

(in Liverpool)

 

Harold Wilson

 

Earl Grey tea

(originally devised and sold by Jackson’s)

 

Rudolph Valentino

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hussein/Usain: A – Mishal Husain; G – Saddam Hussein; M – King Hussein of Jordan; O Usain Bolt

Earl: B – James Earl Ray; C – Earl’s Court; K – Earl Hines; S – Earl Grey tea

Rudolph/Rudolf: D – Rudolph Walker; J – Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer; N – Rudolf Hess; T – Rudolph Valentino

Wilson: E Sergeant Wilson; F Wilson Pickett; L Woodrow Wilson; R – Harold Wilson

Walker: H – Walker; I – Annie Walker; P – Dan Walker; Q – The Walker Art Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barack Hussein Obama, Jimmy Earl Carter, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Ronald Wilson Reagan, George & George Herbert Walker Bush

are all middle names of US Presidents (since WWII)