QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

6 Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for The Champ (7,5) 8 Moorish castle or palace in Spain such as the — of Segovia (7) 9 In golf, a score of two strokes under par for a hole (5)

10 and 15 British rock band whose albums include 2006 UK no 1 Eyes Open (4,6)

12 and 21 Creation of

P G Wodehouse whose valet is Jeeves (6,7) 14 Medieval weapon made of a spiked metal ball attached to a handle with a chain (5) 15 See 10 Across 16 The —, 1988 horror film starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith (4)

19 1982 science-fiction novel by Thomas

H Block (5)

21 See 12 Across 22 1980 drama directed by and featuring

Dennis Hopper (3,2,3,4)

DOWN

1 2005 novel by

Chris Ryan (8) 2 Woollen fabric resembling felt used for the tops of billiard tables (5) 3 See 13 Down

4 1938 drama for which Bette Davis won a Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar (7)

5 Card game; an old form of poker (4) 6 1972 comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’neal (5,2,3) 7 2010 drama starring Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin (8,2) 11 Obsolete English unit of measurement used in tailoring equivalent to 45 inches (3)

12 1988 comedy starring Tom Hanks and

Elizabeth Perkins (3)

13 and 3 The —, Edgar Allan Poe story first published in The Pioneer magazine in 1843 (4-4,5)

14 Word representing the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabet (7) 17 The —, 1980 children’s book by Roald Dahl (5) 18 River in Cornwall upon which Lostwithiel stands (5)

20 Leon —, chairman of the Provisional Government of France from 1946-47 (4)