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In this film, gunfighter Steve McQueen joins up with 6 others to defend a Mexican village from bandits |
The Magnificent Seven
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A funeral song, or any mournful sound |
a dirge
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MLB's Angels aren't based in Los Angeles but in this nearby city |
Anaheim
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In the book of this much-suffering Biblical man, he "answered the Lord, and said, behold, I am vile" |
Job
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On October 1st, 1553 this "Bloody" monarch was crowned queen of England |
Mary I
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As Snake Plissken, this actor had to "Escape from" New York & Los Angeles |
(Kurt) Russell
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Collective term for the style of furnishings of a home's interior |
decor
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On this continent's Kerepakupai Meru River, Angel Falls plummets 3,212 feet |
South America
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This poetic lord wrote of "vile assignations, and adulterous beds, elopements, broken vows, and hearts, and heads" |
(Lord) Byron
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Xylem & phloem in plants are part of this system dealing with food & water transportation |
vascular
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Joan I was a 13th c. queen of Navarre, a land that controlled vital passes in these Franco-Spanish mountains |
the Pyrenees
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Term for a feudal Anglo-Saxon or Scottish lord; Macbeth was one "of Cawdor" |
(Alex: E.J.?) (E.J.: [Shakes head])
thane
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These 6-winged angels of the Bible are the highest ranked, above cherubim |
seraphim
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An 18th c. quote says, "A man who could make so vile" this 3-letter play on words "would not scruple to pick a pocket" |
a pun
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In vertebrate anatomy, it's the opposite of dorsal & means "on the tummy side" |
ventral
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She reigned as queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504 |
Isabella
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It was Riggs, Murtaugh & Chris Rock as Detective Lee Butters in film number 4 in this series |
Lethal Weapon
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Worn in public by some Muslim women, it's a long, loose garment covering the body from head to feet |
(Debbie: What is a hijab?)
a burka
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This German actress immortalized the song "Falling In Love Again" on screen in 1930's "The Blue Angel" |
Marlene Dietrich
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In a 1941 speech, Churchill referred to a "a vile race of" these traitors, from the name of a Norwegian one |
quislings
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Eclipsing binaries are these types of stars that fluctuate in brightness |
variable
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Before she married France's Louis XVI & became queen, Marie-Antoinette was an archduchess of this country |
Austria
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This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise |
Angelina Jolie
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It's a shallow bay; there's one of Benin |
the bight
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Something of a self-portrait, Eugene Gant is the hero of this 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel |
Look Homeward, Angel
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In "A Passage to India" by him, Adela thought "Tears vile, a degradation more subtle than anything endured in the Marabar" |
E.M. Forster
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The outermost region of an atom where electron transfers occur is called this "shell" |
the valence
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Born in Catania in the 14th century, Queen Maria of this island lost her kingdom but returned with a fleet & took it back |
Sicily
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