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30/03/2020 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

Directed 1968 Romeo & Juliet film

C

Post held by Sir Edward Elgar and many before him

D

 

Florentines

 

Franco Zefferelli

 

‘Master of the King’s Musick’

(changed in 1930s to MotK Music)

 

Johnny Francome

(former National Hunt Champion jockey)

E

Appropriate nickname for Canada’s PEI

F

Character with brother played by Paul Anderson and aunt by Helen McCrory

G

Apples baked under a Victoria sponge mixture

H

‘A Pub on every corner’ is boast of this club’s ground

 

‘Spud Island’

(PEI=Prince Edward Island)

 

Tommy Shelby

(from Peaky Blinders)

 

Eve’s pudding

 

Brentford FC

(who play at Griffin Park)

I

Red blood cell disease known with acronym SCA

J

Leader of the Camden Town Group of painters

K

Links Stone, Rugeley, Newark & Gainsborough

L

El Caudillo

 

Sickle Cell Anaemia

 

Walter Sickert

 

River Trent

 

General Franco

(nickname of former Spanish dictator)

M

Baked potato restaurant chain est. 1974

N

(  )

O

Agatha Christie short story about festive food

P

Phrase from 1926 psittacosis pandemic

 

Spudulike

 

Parentheses

 

The Adventures of a Christmas Pudding

 

‘Sick as a  parrot’

Q

R

1870; included Siege of Metz & Battle of Sedan

S

Fashion designer started People’s Place chain

T

 

Tommy

(cover of The Who’s album)

 

Franco-Prussian War

 

Tommy Hilfiger

 

Tommy Robinson

(far right activist)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rent: A – Florentines; H – Brentford FC; K – River Trent; N - Parentheses

Franco: B – Franco Zefferelli; D - Johnny Francome; L – General Franco; R – Franco-Prussian War

Sick: C – ‘Master of the King’s Musick’; I – Sickle Cell Anaemia; J – Walter Sickert; P – ‘Sick as a  parrot’

Spud: E – ‘Spud Island’; G – Eve’s pudding; M – Spudulike; O – The Adventures of a Christmas Pudding

Tommy: F – Tommy Shelby; Q – Tommy; S – Tommy Hilfiger; T – Tommy Robinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark ‘Rent boy’ Renton, Francis ‘Franco’ Begbie’, Simon ‘Sick boy’ Williamson, Daniel ‘Spud’ Murphy & Thomas ‘Tommy’ Mackenzie were all characters in the Danny Boyle film

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