Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 City in Punjab,
Pakistan, formerly known as Lyallpur (10) 8 Eustache —, 17th-century French artist whose works include 1649’s Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus (2,5) 9 Egyptian deity depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon (5) 10 Large tree of southeastern Asia also called the ipoh whose sap is used as an arrow poison (4) 11 Emile —, French author of novels Germinal and Therese Raquin (4)
12 Any of the 24 curved elastic arches of bone that form the chest wall in man (3)
14 1896 stage play by Alfred Jarry (3,3) 15 Lieutenant of Othello in the William Shakespeare play of that name (6) 18 Instance of a batter touching all four bases safely in baseball (3) 20 Volcanic island; second largest of the Hawaiian Islands (4) 21 Sacred river in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan (4) 23 Small fleshy flap of tissue at the back of the throat; an extension of the soft palate (5)
24 Scale of temperature in which the boiling point of water is taken as 80 degrees (7) 25 Capital and main port of Barbados (10)
DOWN
1 John —, 1989 England footballer who co-hosted ITV show Gladiators in the 1990s (7)
2 Burl —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Oscar winner for
The Big Country (4) 3 Vincent —, president of the Fourth
French Republic from 1947-54 (6)
4 Timid son of Hector and Andromache in Greek mythology (8) 5 River of SW France that enters the Bay of Biscay below Bayonne (5) 6 Largest city in
New Mexico, US, on the Rio Grande (11)
7 and 16 2007 film comedy starring Will Arnett and Will Forte in the title roles (3,8,7)
13 and 17 2006 romcom starring Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson and
Matt Dillon (3,2,3,6) 16 See 7 Down 17 See 13 Down 19 Manuel —, Germany and Bayern Munich goalkeeper (5)
22 Starchy cereal used for puddings obtained from an Asian palm tree (4)
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Explosive situation (10) 8 Joins the armed forces (7)
9 Vacuous (5)
10 Norse god (4)
11 Give out playing cards (4) 12 Still (3)
14 Fungal timber decay (3,3) 15 One who holidays in a tent (6)
18 Cover (3)
20 School test (4)
21 Food for catching fish (4) 23 Clean with a broom (5) 24 Avian illness (4,3)
25 Shabby, worn (4,2,4)
DOWN
1 Alter so as to deceive (7) 2 As well (4)
3 Lodging place (6)
4 On the other side of a page (8)
5 Diaper (5)
6 Shoddy, inferior (6,5) 7 Excursion to somewhere unknown (7,4)
13 Simple, unsophisticated (8)
16 Fond of games and amusement (7)
17 Chess opening (6) 19 Caused by (3,2)
22 French cheese (4)