Quizword & Crossword

Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.

ACROSS

1 and 14 Down 2008 biopic starring

Greg Kinnear as

Bob Kearns (5,2,6)

4 and 3 Down US golfer; 2007 winner of The Barclays tournament (5,8) 10 Nick —, presenter of Channel 4 game show Countdown since 2012 (5) 11 Maurice —, French painter whose works include

1927’s The Country House (7)

12 and 17 2008 volume of autobiography by J G Ballard subtitled Shanghai to Shepperton (8,2,4) 13 US sitcom that featured the Tate and Campbell families (4) 15 2006 novel by

Lisa Jackson (6)

17 See 12 Across 19 Town in Galilee where Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle (4)

20 1962 thriller starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum (4,4)

23 See 2 Down 24 The —, Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy (5) 25 Julien —, central character in 1830 Stendhal novel

The Red and the Black (5)

26 — River, tributary of the Missouri, US, that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir (5)

DOWN

2 and 23 Across State of NE Austria; capital St Polten (5,7)

3 See 4 Across 5 Peter —, singer-actor; member of

The Monkees (4) 6 2002 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner ridden by Jose Santos (7) 7 1957 Meredith Wilson Broadway musical set in River City,

Iowa (3,5,3) 8 In heraldry, the colour red (5)

9 2005 animated film whose title character is voiced by Helena Bonham Carter (6,5) 14 See 1 Across

16 Eugene —, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include

Exit the King and Rhinoceros (7)

18 Sea of —, that part of the Pacific Ocean east of North Korea (5)

21 Maria —, US mezzo-soprano; mother of actress Rebecca Hall (5)

22 River in Scotland upon which Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, stands (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror