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English author. 'Brighton Rock' 1938. 'The Third Man' 1949. 'The Quiet American' 1955.

Gangster in 'The Godfather' movie. Casino co-owner. Shot through the right eye.

French actress. Played Vesper Lynd in 'Casino Royale' 2006.

Canadian actor. 'Bonanza' patriarch.

Verdant wasp.

1908 childrens' novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Jealousy personified.

Answer - "... is people!"

A Doctor Seuss breakfast?

"Men who mean just what they say, the brave men of the ... "

Captain Ahab's nemesis.

Fictional TV character. A 'chemist'.

US singer. Soul, R&B, funk, disco.

Another name for 'moonshine'.

Australian author. Nobel prize for literature recipient in 1973.

A 'Golden Girl' actress.

Australian slang for methylated spirits when it is used for beverage purposes.

Another name for the great white shark. No... we are not referring to the golfing goose.

1978 submarine disaster movie. Charlton Heston. Christopher Reeve's first film.

Female Abwehr agent in Jack Higgins's novel 'The Eagle Has Landed' (1975).

2011 raved about bestseller.

Shark. Also called a sand tiger shark.

Unclean gyrations.

US writer in the Western genre. 'Riders of the Purple Sage' (1912).

British medical reference work first published in London, 1858.

'Reservoir Dogs'. Undercover police officer.

Bowler hats. Ultra-violence. Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony'. Book published 1962.

Moniker for Northern Ireland's loyalists.

Defoliant of Vietnam War fame.

Traditional English nursery rhyme about bells circa 1744.

Philadelphus coronarius. US indie band from Indiana.

English singer, born Liverpool. She was friends with those most famous of Liverpudlians. 'You're My World.'

Card game also known as '21' or 'pontoon'.

'The Pestilence'. 'The Great Mortality'.

Evil, black-hearted intelligence officer in the book 'Catch-22', 1961.

A horrific complication of malaria fever. 90% fatality rate according to certain sources.

Name given to murder victim Elizabeth Short by the press. Murdered and mutilated in Los Angeles in 1947. Case unsolved.

Deadly African reptile. Second longest venomous snake.

British ex-soldiers from WWI recruited to reinforce the RIC in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921. Made a fearsome name for themselves in thuggery and war crimes.

Most popular seaside resort in the UK.

Police van for transporting prisoners. Etymology unknown.

Alannah Myles song about Elvis Presley. Also a mixed drink of stout and sparkling, white wine (usually Guinness and Champagne).

Terrorist organisation responsible for the Munich Massacre, 1972.

British comedy series. Characters - Prince Edmund, Lord Melchett, Lord Percy Percy, Captain Darling, Prince George, Lord Flashheart.

Stephen Hawking study subject.

1984 Bruce Springsteen song. 1989 Clint Eastwood movie. Both about a make of car. In the Springsteen song it also a metaphor for a woman's...

Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour et al.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau.

1986 teenage romantic-comedy. Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy.

Plymouth gin, Angostura bitters, water and lemon rind garnish.

"We Never Sleep."

No good deed goes unpunished. A bovid rescues the son of a king and in gratitude the king's son has it sacrificed as an offering to Poseidon.

Man with the name of a male duck went boating in it.

An award to the top goalscorer of the season. Looks like one of a pair of old footwear that some hyperactive kindergarten boy has attacked with a can of aerosol paint... leaving a real, messi job of it.

"No, Mister Bond. I expect you to die!"

Famous bridge. Yeah, yeah. Would you like to see more?

A tactile gesture, real or metaphoric, that all workers would love to receive at the end of their tenure in a position of employment.

Famous Las Vegas casino. Opened 1946.

Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond.

1830 Stendhal novel. It chronicles the life of a social climber of modest beginnings, in Bourbon Restoration France (1814-1830).

Name of one of the factories that was the scene of brutal fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad.

1895 novel by Stephen Crane. A young Union soldier flees from his first engagement and later wants to get a musket ball lodged in a part of his anatomy or at least get nicked with a length of cold steel to make amends for his earlier flight.

"The Vodka Swillers are a-comin'!" World War Three and the USA is saved by teenagers who call themselves 'Gulo gulo luscus'. Helping American victory is the supreme sacrifice of two brothers... a dirty dancer and a warlock with tiger blood.

1959 science-fiction film. Mars Rocket-1 (MR-1) lands on Mars. Carnivorous plants. Bat-rat-spider-crab creature. MR-1 escapes back to Earth. Martians let it be known to the Earthlings via a recording on the MR-1's database that... basically... they know where they live... come back to Mars again... and we will work on a Final Solution for you.

Two periods in American history... so far. The first (1917-1920). The second (1947-1957). The second instalment of the phenomenon is also known as 'McCarthyism' after Senator Joseph McCarthy who not only saw manifestations of this threat under his bed but also in his coffee and stool when he looked down before he flushed.

Star. According to estimates this type of star makes up three quarters of the stars in the Milky Way. I believe it. Even though it is said you cannot see a ___ _____ from Earth with the naked eye.

1948 John Wayne film. Also Walter Brennan, Montgomery Clift. Fictionalised account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.

1983 Prince song.

Name of the capital of Mongolia translated to English.

A misleading fish.

Infectious disease. Most commonly affects children aged 5-15 years. No vaccine.

Belle of Tara.

Nemesis of the Mysterons.

1850 historical fiction work by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

1887 novel. First appearance of Sherlock Holmes. (Is it banned in Utah, USA I wonder?)

1982 novel. 1985 film adaptation. Dark happenings in rural Georgia amongst African-Americans.

1984 Prince song.

1912 Western book by Zane Grey.

1967 Jimi Hendrix song.

Capital of Northwest Territories, Canada.

1970 Joni Mitchell song.

She secured one hundred of these around a plant of the genus Quercus.

Viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes. If there is kidney damage to the victim the skin colour changes.

Impure uranium oxide.

3,395 mile long river in China. Second longest in the country.

1866 waltz composed by Johann Strauss about a 1,770 mile long river in Europe. Second longest in the continent.

1983 movie about a police helicopter that has far too much 'gun.'

1965 movie. A blind young woman who has suffered domestic violence and worse befriends an educated, African-American man in a park. They become close. Based on the 1961 novel 'Be Ready with Bells and Drums' by Australian writer Elizabeth Kata.

A solid form of pure carbon. In the case of the answer, it gets a colouring through traces of boron.

1990 action thriller. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown. A policewoman gets really annoyed with the change of attitudes towards her by people, on finding out she is a representative of the law enforcement community.

1988 French film about free diving. Jean Reno.

Elvis Presley in the islands of the Spam lovers.

1986 movie. "Don't you look at me, ____!" Another in a long list of Dennis Hopper's over-the-top, psychotic roles.

1980 movie about two children and a cook shipwrecked on an island in a tropical paradise. Poisonous berries. The female lead's performance did not impress the critics. Not far behind her, in their view, was the performance of the male lead. Box office did not care. Some peoples' wallets and purses were fattened.

1972 novel by Joseph Wambaugh, whilst he was a serving officer of the LAPD. The book covers the last week of a LAPD officer's service before retirement. Wambaugh also wrote 'The New Centurions' (1971) and 'The Choir Boys' (1975). These books also cover the lives of officers in the LAPD.

1973 crime thriller. Robert Blake. Motorcycle police officers in Arizona. The title is a reference to a Harley Davidson model that came out in 1965.

1936 Tintin adventure set in China during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.

Colloquial name of the Nazi Party's paramilitary organisation Sturmabteilung (SA). The SA was superseded by the SS in 1934 after 'The Night of the Long Knives.'

US actor. Prolific voice actor. Films 'Shoot to Kill' (aka 'Deadly Pursuit'), Highlander, Blue Steel. Well known role is the captain of the prison guard in a movie about wrongful incarceration and survival.

"... meaner than a junkyard dog."

Well known type of townhouse in the US, especially New York City. To be considered a true example of the answer it must have at least two storeys.

"Good grief."

2017 Western film. Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan.

1985 Western film. Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, John Cheese.

1976 comedy/thriller film. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh.

1985 werewolf movie. What kills them.

1883 novel. Answer is the main antagonist, arguably the most famous fictional pirate in literature.

What every cloud supposedly has.

Rolls Royce model. Production (1906-1926). 7874 manufactured. Also called a 40/50.

Rolls Royce model. Production (1965-1980). 30,057 manufactured. Also called ______ Wraith II.

Having a wealthy or privileged background.

United States Armed Forces' third highest military decoration for valour in combat.