QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

6 and 11 Down 2008 novel by Marian Keyes (4,8,3) 8 District of Liverpool after which a Premier League football club is named (7)

9 Erik —, French composer of 1917 ballet Parade (5) 10 Asian republic; capital Tehran (4)

12 Ian —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Flight of the Phoenix (6) 14 In Greek mythology, a nymph dwelling in a lake, spring, fountain or river (5) 15 and 12 Down

Large inlet of northern South Island,

New Zealand whose chief towns include Nelson (6,3)

16 2006 novel by

Douglas Coupland (4) 19 1976 novel by

William Goldman (5) 21 In music, a group of three equal notes played in a time value of two or four (7)

22 1985 novel by

Larry Mcmurtry (8,4)

DOWN

1 2004 comedy-drama film starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church (8) 2 In mathematics, an angle of less than 90 degrees (5)

3 1980 film drama starring Gary Busey and Jodie Foster (5) 4 1997 film drama starring Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins (7)

5 Small flying insect known to bite (4)

6 BBC TV documentary/ reality series presented by Esther Rantzen whose featured amateurs included singer Sheena

Easton and cook

Gwen Troake (3,3,4) 7 Folke —, Swedish diplomat and UN Security Council mediator assassinated in 1948 (10) 11 See 6 Across 12 See 15 Across

13 Former French gold coin worth 20 francs (8) 14 US city; state capital of Mississippi before Jackson (7)

17 One of The Three Musketeers in works by Alexandre Dumas (5) 18 Reddish-brown glandular organ of the body that stores glycogen (5) 20 Diluted drink of rum issued to the British Navy whose name derived from the nickname of admiral Edward Vernon (4)