Literary Lacrosse Schtick 2 - A Bookish Quiz

So in 2018 for the publication of my previous novel, I put up a cryptic clue literary quiz where all the answers were book titles. You can view it here and the answers here.

So with a new book out in exactly a week's time, the quiz is back too with a whole bunch of new clues. The answers can be viewed here

An example of how the quiz works. I give the year of publication and the country of the author and then a cryptic clue which in true crossword style, is a play on the words of the book's title. So for example, after giving you the year ad country, the clue might be UNADORNED NOONTIME REPAST. For which the answer is William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"

Enjoy and feel free to post your total in the comments. Try and avoid posting the answers.

1) UK 2018 THE GUY WHO MAKES BELFAST DOORSTOP DELIVERIES?

2) US 2017 POTUS 16’S BUDDHIST SOUL SEARCHING? 

3) US 2011 DISPOSITION OF AWE

4) UK 1928 BIOGRAPHY OF DISNEY WORLD? 

5) Mexico 2017 SALT & PEPPER TROPICAL STORM?

6) US 2020 BETWEEN SOHO AND THE THEATRELAND OF THE MIND

7) US 1993 A FISTFUL OF CHASTE SELF-IMMOLATORS

8) S.Africa 2003 ELVIS’ SOUTH AFRICAN AUNT?

9) UK 2006 CONSTANTINOPLE’S ILLEGITIMACY? 

10) US 2020 METEOROLOGY

11) UK 1995 PLANETARY GIRDLES MADE OF ICE AND ROCK

12) Australia 2018 JUVENILE CONSUMES ALL THE MILKY WAYS IN EXISTENCE

13) US 2000  RESIDENTIAL FOLIAGE

14) UK/ Ireland 2016 SUBJACENT NEIGHBOURS OF THE MORAVIANS?

15) Japan 1994 COPPER MNEMONICS?

16) UK 2020 THOMAS MORE’S HOME ADDRESS? 

17) UK 2020 LEXICON FOR A PERJURER? 

18) Chile 2014 ANSWER A, B, C, OR D

19) US 1996 THE JOKE’S ON YOU IN PERPETUITY

20) UK 1962 25 CARAT MOLESKIN?

21) UK 2020 PETTY ABRASION? 

22) US 1992 SECOND GENERATION DIVINE OFFSPRING? 

23) France 2015 SEPTIMAL FACULTY OF FRENCH, OR LATIN, OR ENGLISH OR DANISH… 

24) Palestine 2017 LESSER MINUTIA?

25) UK/India 2019 BEAUTIFUL CORPSES?

26) Mexico/US 2013 FIRST PERSON CHRONICLE OF DENTITION? 

27) US 2011 SENDING THE BOYS ROUND?

28) France 2018 NOCTURNAL SANGUINARY SHADE

29) US 2020 OCTO-GRANARY?

30) UK/Ireland 2020 SIDEREAL TOW

31) UK 2015 COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY A SEA OF GLOSSY FABRIC?

32) UK 2020 EINSTEIN’S DEVOTED METHOD?

33) US 2020 SSSSH!

34) Germany 2015 THE THREE OF THEM ARE NO LONGER HERE, THOUGH YOU MIGHT STILL CATCH

 THE LAST ONE

35) US 2012 SHADY MAN’S NYCHTHEMERON TOME BOUTIQUE

Literary Lacrosse Stick Quiz!

Yesterday I did an author Twitter takeover of my publishers Dead Ink Books  As part of the mayhem & madness, I set a 25 question quiz, with questions posed as crossword cryptic clues. (Hence the title, Literary Lacrosse Stick, to represent that my new novel has a couple of acrostics in it).

In case you weren't able to join in but have a hankering to pit your wits, here are the questions again.

I give the cryptic clue to the book title, the year of publication and the country of origin of the author.

Here's an example for you:  Junky American author’s unadorned repast (5,5) 1959

Answer: 

I'll publish the answers on the blog in a couple of days.

Happy solving!

1) UK author’s ossified time keepers (3,4,6) 2014 

2) Russian MA (Hons) celebrates with a salted rimmed glass of tequila & triple sec (3,6,3,9) 1967 

3) Polish émigré switches off all the lights at the hub (5,2,8) 1899 

4) Manchester author’s wind-up citrus fruit (1,9,6) 1962

5) Korean eschewer of animal comestibles (3,10) 2007

6) All change for this Czech, but the DNA remains exactly the same (3,13) 1915  

7) Junky author’s vermillion nocturnal municipalities (6,2,3,3,5) 1981

8) Anglo-Dutchman’s Sub-subcutaneous? (5,3,4)  2000

9) Pacifist Yorkshireman’s Infernal unison (3,6,6) 2006 

10) Yugoslav Civil Service as the source of agonies? (3,8,2,4) 2006

11) Austrian sporting custodian’s twitchiness in the face of punitive leathering (3,11,7,2,3,7,4) 1970 

12) Japanese Alice eschews egg-timer for the final apocalypse (4-6,10,3,3,3,2,3,5) 1985 

13) US author has Theseus’ conquest submit to its craving for nicotine (3,8,5,1,9,5) 2000 

14) Modern day French misanthrope would gladly blow each and every one of us to bits (8) 1998 

15) Orphaned NYC Borough (10,8) 1999 

16) Irish author’s nominal aphasia? (3,9) 1953

17) Count on this midday British author’s attribution of the cause of hay fever (6) 1995 

18) American writer’s ignited abecedary (5,8) 2012

19) Frenchman’s 26th and last, the back to the beginning for the first (4) 2010

20) American author relocates Hades between Brooklyn’s Polo grounds and Dallas (10) 1997 

21) Scottish author double negative rejection of state benefits amid mañana (3,3,5,3,4) 1983 

22) French author drops a quartet of aitches? (1-1-1-1) 2010

23) Nothing to sneeze at Russian SciFi author putting murder up his nose (5) 2011 

24) English author’s tale of the dictator of London’s W11 (3,8,2,7,4) 1904 

25) US once-a-decade novelist’s nuptial plans? (3,8,4) 2011 

Answers can be found here