Puzzle 17

Use superior authority to reject an argument

Tie rope together right over left; left over right

Kill someone by grabbing them around the throat

Presidential end of the White House

Trivial, petty, insignificant

Enclosed passenger units attached to motorbikes

__ Goes, Cole Porter's 1930s musical

__ red rice, staple from southern France

What Gollum was obsessed with

80s music genre of OMD, Erasure, Depeche Mode etc.

Émilie de __, physicist, Voltaire's mistress

__ Peaches; baseball team in A League of Their Own

Unswervingly loyal

Canadian cartoon series set in Storybook Village

Someone born between January 20 and February 18

__ Judy man, seaside entertainer with a swazzle

1950s slicked-back hair that forms a seam at back

__ House, where a wounded Lincoln was taken to

__ pen cleaner, looks after nibs and barrels

Largest city of the Faroe Islands

State of semi-darkness

Noble title, ranked above a baron

Lost's Dr. Juliet Burke actress, Elizabeth __