bezique

ANSWERS: 1 Jamboree; 2 Women's shoes; 3 Trigger; 4 A 1930s dance similar to a slow rumba; 5 King George VI; 6 Bezique; 7 Los Angeles Galaxy; 8 London's Isle of Dogs; 9 The Mason-Dixon Line; 10 The River Lagan.

QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Dragnet; 2 A compound fracture; 3 The violin; 4 Bezique; 5 Captain James Cook.

If you begin a Scrabble game with the tiles BEEIQUZ, you can score 124 points with BEZIQUE. Holding the tiles AHINGWZ with a B suitably placed between two red squares, you can score 374 points with WHIZBANG, provided both red squares are covered--a "triple-triple" in the U.S.

The pair were a major success at last year's Edinburgh Jazz Festival and the subsequent CD, Bezique, was an acclaimed follow-up.

beer, lager, vodka, Hooch, Bezique and gassed milk."

A ladies' loo has been installed, I'm sure I clocked a bottle of Bezique behind the bar and Tam Parks is now selling food.

LOMBARD RALLY (UK motoring), BAR GRAPH, VERBAL ABUSE, YUCCA CACTUS, GRANDE VEDETTE (Cham), BEST SELLER, SAFE LEFT (coined), LARGE LEGS (coined), EIGHTY THREE, OIL SLICK, PYJAMA JACKET, SILK COCKS, CABLE TELEVISION, SUMMER EMPLOYMENT (coined), PIANO CONCERTO, CORN ROCKET, SUPER EPIC (coined), IRAQUI PIQUI (coined), FUTURE PERFECT, CREASE RESISTANT, FATAL ATTRACTION (film), QUEUE FEUD (coined), 'ROVER' EVENT (coined), TWO DOWN, FIXED EXPRESSION (bt), POYA DAYS, POPULARIZE BEZIQUE (coined)

* For those who don't remember, Bezique was a short-lived 80s spirit, in the noble tradition of Malibu and coke.