QUIZWORD CLUES
ACROSS
6 1985 Prix de l’arc de Triomphe winner ridden by
Pat Eddery (7,5)
8 and 15 1980 film thriller starring
Michael Caine and
Angie Dickinson (7,2,4) 9 High-level computer programming language for beginners, which first appeared in 1964 (5) 10 Eddie —, BBC broadcaster; host of Radio 4’s PM (4) 12 Arnold —, author of stage plays Roots and The Kitchen (6)
14 A C W —, inventor of a portable lamp used to transmit Morse code (5)
15 See 8 Across
16 1981 biopic starring, directed and co-written by Warren Beatty (4) 19 Earthy pigment containing ferric oxide (5)
21 Kenneth —, actor who played King Henry in 2014 family film Maleficent (7)
22 1997 family film starring John Goodman and
Jim Broadbent (3,9)
DOWN
1 2014 City of Culture in the Republic of Ireland (8)
2 The —, 1989 action film starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (5) 3 Round yellow edible root called rutabaga in North America (5) 4 1886 painting by
John Everett Millais originally titled A Child’s World (7) 5 Ancient Egyptian female fertility goddess usually depicted with a cow’s horns (4)
6 1995 novel by
Leon Uris (10)
7 and 18 1843 novella by Charles Dickens (1,9,5) 11 Obsolete English unit of measurement equivalent to 45 inches, used in tailoring (3)
12 Katy —, actress-comedian who portrays
Sarah Ferguson in Channel 4 sitcom
The Windsors (3)
13 David —, US actor-comedian who played Champ Kind in 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (8)
14 Kate —, 2000 Olympic modern pentathlon bronze medallist (7)
17 Fruit of the oak tree (5)
18 See 7 Down
20 Otto —, 1944 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (4)