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27/01/2020 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

1945/7 Minister of Education & Mancunian

C

Founder of Spartacus League; executed in 1919

D

 

Fedora

 

Ellen Wilkinson

 

Rosa Luxemburg

(19th century German communist)

 

Jacques-Louis David

(painted Napoleon Crossing the Alps)

E

Classical Greek equivalent to Eve in the bible

F

Wrote the lyrics to Jerome Kern musical Show Boat

G

Last Manager to win the English First Division

H

Lost the first ever Wembley Cup Final

 

Pandora

 

Oscar Hammerstein II

 

Howard Wilkinson

(with Leeds United in 1992)

 

West Ham United

(beaten 2-0 by Bolton Wanderers)

I

Capital of the Waikato region

J

Lotte Lenya’s role in From Russia with Love

K

1992 to 1993 in fictional town of Los Barcos

L

US President’s Maryland country retreat

 

Hamilton

(North Island, New Zealand)

 

Rosa Klebb

 

Eldorado

(location for ill-fated BBC soap opera)

 

Camp David

M

Heroine of play with ‘7 Ages of Man’ speech

N

Tiptree-based marmalade and jam makers

O

N Cornwall village famous for cheddar

P

Path walked by Jesus on the way to his crucifixion

 

Rosalind

(Shakespeare’s As You Like It)

 

Wilkins & Co.

 

Davidstow

 

Via Dolorosa

Q

R

Wrote A Book of Mediterranean Food in 1950

S

Dancer who was strangled by her own scarf

T

 

Jon Hamm

(star of Mad Men)

 

Elizabeth David

 

Isadora Duncan

(scarf got caught in axle of car wheel)

 

Tom Wilkinson

(actor)
 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

Dora: A – Fedora; E – Pandora; K – Eldorado; S – Isadora Duncan

Wilkins: B – Ellen Wilkinson; G – Howard Wilkinson; N – Wilkins & Co.; T – Tom Wilkinson

Rosa: C – Rosa Luxemburg; J – Rosa Klebb; M – Rosalind; P – Via Dolorosa

David: D – Jacques-Louis David; L – Camp David; O – Davidstow; R – Elizabeth David

Ham: F – Oscar Hammerstein II; H - West Ham United; I – Hamilton; Q – Jon Hamm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…Dora Spenlow, Wilkins Micawber, Rosa Dartle, David Copperfield and Ham Peggotty are all characters from the Dickens novel... David Copperfield