Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Department of France; capital Auxerre (5) 7 Vegetable also called a turnip cabbage (8)
8 Title character in
1826 J F Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans (5)
10 and 12 2009 novel by Audrey Niffenegger (3,7,8)
12 See 10 Across
14 Second — War,
1899-1902 conflict in South Africa (4)
16 Dave —, US winner of the 1965 PGA Championship (4)
17 Plant with bell-shaped flowers known in Scotland as the bluebell (8)
20 English singer-songwriter who recorded 1987 no 1 debut album Whenever You Need Somebody (4,6)
23 and 11 Down 1975 studio album by
David Bowie (5,9) 24 — melon, round fruit with a greenish-white rind and sweet flesh (8)
25 and 1 Down Pakistan
Test cricketer who took 5-52 against England at the Oval in 1992 (5,6)
DOWN
1 See 25 Across 2 Yannick —, 1983 French Open singles tennis championship winner (4)
3 See 21 Down
4 Edward —, composer who wrote Salut d’amour as an engagement present for his fiancee in 1888 (5)
5 Ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to North America in 1620 (9)
6 Henry —, author of novels Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring (6) 9 Monica —, 1992 US
Open singles tennis championship winner (5)
11 See 23 Across
13 Chris —, rugby union centre; 1968 Scotland Test debutant against Australia (3)
15 Melvil —, US inventor of a system for the classification of library books (5)
16 Cillian —, actor who plays Thomas Shelby in BBC TV drama series Peaky Blinders (6) 18 Bernhard —, golfer;
1985 and 1993 Masters Tournament winner (6) 19 Collective name for the sepals of a flower (5)
21 and 3 1985 film comedy starring
Michael J Fox and
James Hampton (4,4) 22 Hindu system of meditation and asceticism (4)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Period of excessive indulgence (5)
7 Unrefined petroleum (5,3) 8 Restrict (5)
10 As an estimate (4,2,4) 12 Outdoor garment (8) 14 Moves by jumping on one foot (4)
16 Intentions (4)
17 Reacts (8)
20 Highly venomous spider (5,5)
23 Telephone box (5)
24 Type of white wine (8) 25 Coin side (5)
DOWN
1 Spanish dance (6) 2 Stern (4)
3 In accordance with facts (4)
4 Love deeply (5)
5 Forget how many (4,5) 6 Shuts (6) 9 Battery-operated lamp (5)
11 Fellow players (9) 13 Wonderment (3) 15 Frighten, startle (5) 16 Hair colour (6) 18 Judders (6)
19 Ability to do something well (5) 21 Charged particles (4) 22 Sagacious (4)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror