Smartypants Quiz, 2007.
So here are the answers to make you groan, together with some clues to my twisted way of thinking!
1 Double container for French dance  (3,3)   Can Can
2 Measure titration with teeth (5) Molar
3 Did they have JCBs at St. Georges Hill in 1645? (7) Diggers (revolutionary uprising)
4 Blocks the water outlet with an electrical connector  (4) Plug 
5 Sword in a Saxon council? (4, 5) moot point
6 Tilley and Victoria goddess swansong? (5) Vesta
7 Has a Suffolk arriwiggle got hairy ears? (6) earwig
8 Push forward the work (7) project
9 Metal policeman (6) copper
10 The injured man was wearing a floral neckerchief (8) casualty (casual tie)
11 East European exotic dancer (4) Pole
12 The Norse God of thunder is getting warmer (4) Thaw (Thor)
13 The detective loves this part of a shirt (6) collar
14 To bump into a tube that makes patterns (7) Collide (from kaleidoscope)
15 An advanced mechanic jumps to conclusions (7, 4) quantum leap
16 Tree by the seashore (5) beech
17 Where the Secretary to the Admiralty saved cannon volleys (8) Bodleian. (Pepys collected broadside ballads)
18 Attic window goes camping (9) Dormobile (dormer windows)
19 Long winded mechanical process (12) machinations
20 I have the number for this miserly Midas (4) mean (golden ratio number)
21 Dirty Harry’s champagne flavoured ice cream (6) Magnum
22 Air raid lures sailor (5) Siren
23 Wounded by an archaic musical recording (4) Epee (EP was extended play  4 track vinyl record)
24 Fruity pipe worker (7) Plumber
25 Furniture without liquorice sweets (13) Uncomfortable (think liquorice comfit sweets)
26 Did this WW2 army use Viking weapons to alter equilibrium? (4) AXIS
27 Take no notice of his uneducated ravings (8) Ignorant
28 Uncles nemesis turns to seventies spuds (5) Smash (from SMERSH - Man from Uncle)
29 Voting for the best ship was fixed (6) Rigged
30 This corn gives me a headache (8) Migraine
31 The paperclip lorry stopped (10) Stationary
32 The assistant stage manager died (8) Curtains (they are usually in charge of opening them)
33 Drunk in charge of a book (8) Bibulous (from bibliophile)
34 This meeting will decide whether it is a he or a she (6) Agenda (a gender)
35 Where barristers get drunk (3) bar
36 Left handed herald gave me the creeps (8) Sinister (heraldic term for left hand side)
37 Blair swims the Suffolk river to a defunct radio station (6) Orwell (George Orwell, author, real name Blair)
38 Generous with his molluscs (9) Unselfish
39 Finally found the map book (5) Atlas
40 Blissful stupidity (9) ignorance (is bliss)
41 Milligan in the workhouse (5) Spike
42 Metallic legs of Japanese cartoon character (9) Manganese (Manga knees)
43 Edward 2nds final continental dance (5) Polka (killed by red hot poker up anus)
44 Did he get paid for that lily pond picture? (5) Monet
45 Young canine conqueror of Quebec (5) Wolfe
46 These roads are the lifeblood of the transport system (8) Arterial
47 Can you hear the locomotive mechanic? (8) Engineer
48 Bomb throwing soldier from Spain (9) Grenadier (from Granada, so not bombadier)
49 The Scots monster is no longer in the loch. (9) Emptyness
50 Enthusiastically religious (6) Zealot (zeal lot)
51 Mend tyre precisely (11) Acupuncture
52 My mother’s young brother isn’t very civilised  (7) Uncouth
53 Lets get to the root of this heavenly automobile (8) Angelica
54 Mechanically coded in Bletchley (9) Enigmatic (Enigma code machine)
55 Flew by himself at minimal altitude (4) Solo
56 Fast campanology goes like this (8) Clappers
57 Sex and violence in a field (4) Rape
58 This bird is fast (5) Swift
59 Sucks water up instead of holding it back (6, 3) Hoover Dam
60 Light bringer for Tommy’s cigarette (7) Lucifer (brand of WW1 matches)
61 Painted arresting landscapes in East Anglia (9) Constable
62 Old picture in attic makes TV maneater show her roots (6, 4) Dorian Gray (Dorian from Birds of a Feather)
63 Beef that fills you up from the chest to your face (3, 3, 5) Rib Eye Steak
64 Mose's medication for the sinful (7) Tablets
65 A cigarette smoking animal designed by committee (5) Camel

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