The questions
1 “As a free man, I take pride in the words...” – what came next?
2 Which stock market index has never passed its 1989 peak?
3 Which British bird can climb down trees head-first?
4 Whose Red Special guitar was partly made from a fireplace?
5 What would an arctophile collect?
6 Which suffragette received a state funeral in Ethiopia?
7 The book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is about what film?
8 What political party was founded in Syria in 1943?
What links:
9 Toxic (Oxford); single-use (Collins); justice (Merriam-Webster)?
10 52 from Dulichium; 24 from Same; 20 from Zacynthus; 12 from Ithaca?
11 Heap; layered; lock of hair; heaped rainstorm?
12 Dry Tortugas; Big Cypress; Biscayne; Gulf Islands; Everglades?
13 Sphairistike; gossima; battledore; mintonette; kitten ball?
14 Nicholas Hammond; Tobey Maguire; Andrew Garfield; Tom Holland?
15 P (10); Al (9); H (8); Ca (7); C (6); B (5); Au (4); Sn (3)?
The answers
1 Ich bin ein Berliner.
2 Japan’s Nikkei.
3 Nuthatch.
4 Brian May.
5 Teddy bears.
6 Sylvia Pankhurst.
7 Where Eagles Dare.
8 Ba’ath party.
9 Dictionaries’ words of the year for 2018.
10 Penelope’s suitors in The Odyssey.
11 Meanings of names of cloud types: cumulus; stratus; cirrus; cumulonimbus.
12 National parks in Florida.
13 Early names for sports: lawn tennis; table tennis; badminton; volleyball; softball.
14 Played Spider-Man on screen.
15 Chemical elements by number of letters: phosphorus; aluminium; hydrogen; calcium; carbon; boron; gold; tin.
