Water Aid C/D 28 Feb 2025

[Tuvok]

Answers have some connection to the 12 Days of Christmas.

12. Used to describe a situation in which something is or has to be exactly right: 10

16. Loved by a cheap tailor and a wandering minstrel. 3-3

17. Spent most of the early 1980s on an olive farm in a small town in Tuscany, Italy. 5,6,”6”, 5

31. An iconic and memorable ads of the 21st century.7,7

38. Hollywood's highest-paid star of 1942. 6,6

51. A personage of noble rank and title. 2-2,4,4,11

52. Unlike his colleagues, he usually preferred a more peaceful, low key existence outside of work. 7,5

59. Patron of a charity formed to raise awareness and funds for various cancer and multiple sclerosis programmes. 5,6,4

All help appreciated.

[newmodarmy]

12 perfection? Can't see the Xmas link though.

[Hazlinny]

17. Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker

[Hazlinny]

38. Think I saw this answered as Ginger Rogers but ???

[Hazlinny]

16. Yum-Yum ........... (in The Mikado)

[Hazlinny]

51.  Ko-Ko, Lord High Commissioner   .. (The Mikado) but 12 letters  ?

[Hazlinny]

59 Mallyh answered this previously as  ..... Clive Ronald Burr from Iron Maiden

[ubasses]

seen 59 answered as  Clive Raymond Burr.

[ubasses]

oops  middle name should be Ronald.

[Romanski]

51 Ko Ko Lord High Executioner

[Romanski]

12 Goldilocks

[Romanski]

52 Charlie Watts (drummer)

[Tuvok]

Thanks all.

That just leaves no. 31 - any ideas?

31. An iconic and memorable ads of the 21st century. 7,7

[Hazlinny]

There was a suggestion earlier of British Airways but ??

[Tuvok]

Saw that but how does that fit the quiz?  (Even looked up the name of the song!)

[Romanski]

Cadbury Gorilla? (Another drummer).Don't know why clue says ads rather than ad.

[Tuvok]

It fits.

Ta.