ADMIRABLY RACED

Iran's 9th presidential election takes the customary close connection between Iranian politics and gorgeous good looks to new heights read more...

YOU'RE ONTO ME

... so what's it going to be,
6 or 9?

THE SPHINX

'Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'

T. S. Eliot, A Game of Chess, The Wasteland

CHEAP AVARICE

"archetypal ditz" is completely unknown to Google! One point to Toby...

STRAIGHT ANSWER

Millions of you keep on wanting to know about my job. I am an underwater firefighter.

COOL NAME

I found a cool name for a cat... 'Mousey'

PRECIPITATION

I have neither tongue to speak nor feet to step but as you would direct me. On the condition that you extricate me out of every difficulty that you bring me into. And make it damn well worth my while too.

CIRCUMLOCUTION

There is a comfort in words, and an escape. I have to live with myself...

RENCONTRE

If I run into just one more, I will hang on to them.

RANDOM ILLUSION

Roadkill isn't for eating (?)

LATE NIGHT'S VIEWING

I tell a mean bedtime story.