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Oven-ready quiz rounds: All the vowels appear just once

Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”.

All the vowels appear just once

The answers to the following clues are in alphabetical order and they all include each vowel (A E I O U) once and once only. The number in brackets indicates the number of letters in the answer. [These 10 questions have been taken from an earlier piece which contained 20 such questions.]

1 The “B” in ASBO (9)

2 Vegetable from the Brassica genus, known as choufleur in French (11 letters)

3 State of extreme physical or mental tiredness (10)

4 US name for a prison, the first word in the title of an Elvis Presley #1, the UK’s best-selling record of 1957 (9)

5 East African country bordered by eSwatini, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, with Maputo as its capital (10)

6 Jane Austen novel, first published posthumously in 1817 (10)

7 Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection (9)

8 A variety of redwood tree found in North America (7)

9 Percussion instrument that features in the title of the Byrds’ only UK #1 and in the chorus of Abba’s “Dancing Queen” (10)

10 A form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays (11)

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