1)
agenda
2)
insistent ↔ instant
3) to
blacken/blackening
4) is
painted
5)
darkly (governed by)
6) hood/hooded
(HERE) Inquisition
Monty
Python: the Spanish Inquisition
7)
populace
8) serf
9)
touched by
10) at
every turn
11)
devious ↔ devilish Monty Python: “Mr Devious”
12)
assassin of Collins
13)
deliberately crafted
14) grim the “Grim Reaper”
15)
“repressive”
16)
ardent(ly)
17)
passionate(ly)
18)
fierce(ly)
19) to
curry favour with
19) to
reckon
21)
revenue
22)
library committee
23) in
their thousands
24) to
submit
25)
Censorship Board
26) in
the public realm
27)
calumny
verb: to calumniate (formal!)
28)
baloney
29) ever
(underlined)
30)
trading and working exchanges
31)
salient aspect(s)/point(s)
from Latin: “salire”
32)
free-floating
33) to
settle on
34)
crystal-gazing
35)
tree-hugging
36)
consumerism
37)
eventually (FALSE FRIEND)
38)
nerve (HERE)
39) affirmation cf: affirmative action ~ “positive discrimination” // (to answer etc.) in the affirmative
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