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• Sat Nov 8 2025

The questions

1 Who travelled in search of ?the hooly blisful martir??

2 In what combat sport are competitors divided into east and west?

3 Which force is based in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rh?ne?

4 In hospitals, the Bristol scale is used to classify what?

5 Which English rugby player has been immortalised as a Barbie doll?

6 What begins at Theresienwiese on the first Saturday after 15 September?

7 The River Irwell separates which two cities?

8 Which band played with red flowerpots on their heads?

What links:

9 Arctic; Blanford?s; corsac; fennec; red; R?ppell?s; Tibetan sand?

10 I (-); II (Caroline); III (Charlotte); IV (Caroline); V (Mary); VI (Elizabeth)?

11 Baloney; jeans; magenta; sardine; tarantula?

12 ABC; Associated-Rediffusion; ATV; Granada?

13 Aphrodite (doves); Freya (cats); Hera (peacocks); Thor (goats)?

14 Celtic shield and horned helmet; bust of Hadrian; Saxon sword; Zulu spearhead?

15 WEB Du Bois; Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston; Augusta Savage?

View image in fullscreen Feathers ruffled by the peacock clue? Photograph: Pierre-Yves Roth/Getty Images/500px

The answers

1 Pilgrims in Chaucer?s Canterbury Tales.

2 Sumo.

3 French Foreign Legion.

4 Stools.

5 Ellie Kildunne.

6 Oktoberfest (Munich).

7 Manchester and Salford.

8 Devo.

9 Fox species.

10 Queen consorts of King Georges.

11 Named after places in Italy: Bologna; Genoa; Magenta; Sardinia; Taranto.

12 Original ?big four? ITV regional companies.

13 Animals that pulled chariots of Greek and Norse deities.

14 Archaeological finds in the Thames.

15 Major figures of the Harlem Renaissance.