Anagram Pairs
A personal journal about working in a milk-producing facility
A dairy diary
Mistaking cheering for a riot, William the Conqueror's guards burned local houses after his coronation on Xmas of this year
1066
Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore"
Virginia Woolf
A female sponsor for a child at baptism
Godmother
It's a part of an elephant & a part of a tree
Trunk
A kayak for the Atlantic or the Pacific
An ocean canoe
This carol was first performed in Austria on Christmas Eve in 1818 as "Stille Nacht"
Silent Night
After retiring to the Sussex Downs, Sherlock Holmes took up this agricultural hobby
Beekeeping
Title for a female adult leader of a small group of Cub Scouts
Den mother
4-letter word for a newspaper department, such as the "city" or "foreign" one
Desk
Someone who searches out a buddy or pal
Friend Finder
On Christmas Day, 1991, he announced his resignation as Soviet leader, and wished everyone the best
Mikhail Gorbachev
This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex"
Sense and Sensibility
A sheet of silicon containing the principal components of a computer
Motherboard
When you preside over a meeting, you "take" this; when sentenced to death, sometimes you "got" this
Chair
The prudent care you take when bidding at Sotheby's
Auction Caution
On December 17, 1903, these two men telegrammed: "Average speed...thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas"
Wilbur and Orville Wright
In 1948, the Office of the Astronomer Royal was moved to Herstmonceux, East Sussex, from its original location in this London landmark
Greenwich Observatory
a place that has very large supplies of a mineral or other natural resource
Motherload
Someone trying artful deception is said to be using "smoke &" these
Mirrors
To pointlessly use up perspiration
Waste sweat
Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man
Pope John Paul II
This organisation, founded by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, has its UK headquarters near East Grinstead
(The Church of) Scientology
a large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles
Mothership
Francis Blair, editor of the Washington Globe, was part of Andrew Jackson's "kitchen" one
Cabinet