Quizword & Crossword Quizword

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

ACROSS

1 See 25 Across

4 See 22 Down 10 Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin show; 1977 Tony Award-winner for

Best Musical and Best Original Score (5)

11 Town in Derbyshire, north-west of Kinder Scout, at the foot of the Pennines (7)

12 Game bird such as the ring-necked — or Lady Amherst’s — (8) 13 US TV sitcom that featured Christopher Lloyd as Reverend Jim Ignatowski (4)

15 Roman god of fire and

metalworking (6)

17 Kind of dark tea grown in China which is partly fermented before being dried (6)

19 Member of a nomadic people living chiefly in N Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula (4)

20 2015 novel by Rosie

Harris (6,2)

23 Hard rubber also called vulcanite used for electrical insulators (7) 24 City in Uusimaa, Finland, which houses the Gallen-kallela Museum (5)

25 and 1 1994 French Open men’s doubles tennis title winner with Jonathan Stark (5,5) 26 and 3 Down

US convict executed in 1960; author of memoir Cell 2455, Death Row (5,8)

DOWN

2 Long weapon with a pointed head used by horsemen (5)

3 See 26 Across 5 Woodwind instrument whose mouthpiece has a double reed (4)

6 Jacopo —, Italian artist whose works include 1545’s The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (7)

7 1939 novel by Patrick

White (5,6)

8 ITV sitcom that starred Maureen Lipman and Simon Williams as Jane and Laurence Lucas (5) 9 Immature plant whose bulb and long green leaves are eaten in salads (6,5)

14 Phylum of invertebrates that includes the sponges (8)

16 Chronic infection also called Hansen’s disease (7)

18 Jennifer —, singeractress who played Karen Sisco in

1998 crime film

Out of Sight (5)

21 Small brightly coloured freshwater fish popular in aquaria (5)

22 and 4 Across

Italian baritone who produced and played the title role in Giuseppe Verdi opera Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1965 (4,5)