verb. sap.

The Guardian has now put King William’s College quiz fans out of their misery by publishing the answers to this year’s brain squeezer.

If you’re interested, the answer to 17.6 (In which town did la Baronne de la Chalonnière encounter Alexander Duggan at the Hôtel du Cerf?) is Gap.  This is allegedly a reference to Frederick Forsyth’s Day of the Jackal, a book which I have read – retaining, it would seem, absolutely nothing.