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sorry no letters or numbers.Answers relate to 1960s somehow.
15 A car part for the whole of 1960
33 Who did the Queen lose her crown to?
48 A flower for a likely lady

48 Aster (Lady Aster or was that Lady Astor?)

JimB

Thanks JimB

33. Was it the Jester in American Pie?

"And while the Queen was looking down
The Jester stole her thorny crown"

JimB

I've gone for the jester
and Rose for my rose for the flower one

Dont want to burst any bubbles but american pie wasnt released until 71 but other than that its a brill answer

Not quite, Don McLean wrote the song in the late sixties as an abstract form of his own life story from the mid-fifties onwards inspired loosely on the death of Buddy Holly in 1959.

Having googled American Pie I now see that, although there is reference to the King and Queen, the pertinent words are, "And while the King was looking down..., not the Queen, so???

JimB