Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

3 and 9

1995 novel by Nicholas Shakespeare (3,6,8)

8 — Cup, women’s world team championship in badminton (4) 9 See 3 Across

10 Margot —, actress who played Lois Lane in 1978 action film Superman (6)

13 Geraint —, Welsh operatic bass-baritone who died in 1992 (5)

14 Large earthenware pot of Japan in which charcoal is burnt to provide indoor heating (7)

15 Asian primate also called the Whitehanded gibbon (3)

16 River in Wales forming the boundary between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire (7)

17 Burt —, actor who played Entwistle in

BBC TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine (5) 21 Persian variety of the

wild ass (6)

22 Colin —, actor who played DI Peter Pascoe in BBC TV series Dalziel and Pascoe (8)

23 and 18 Down

Australian winner of the 1980 F1 world drivers’ championship (4,5)

24 and 4 Down

2016 film drama starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck (3,6,5)

DOWN

1 Actor-writer who played Oliver Farnsworth in 1976 sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to

Earth (4,5)

2 Grammatical structure where two words connected by a conjunction are used to express a single notion (9)

4 See 24 Across

5 1936 Vladimir Nabokov book whose protagonist is Hermann

Karlovich (7)

6 Old Testament Hebrew patriarch who built an ark (4)

7 Irish Gaelic name for

Ireland (4)

11 Sophia —, author of novels Romanitas and Rome

Burning (9)

12 Craig —, 2007 European Cup 100m winner for Great Britain (9)

14 Will —, British comedian who played the title role in 1937 film Oh, Mr Porter! (3) 15 Asian republic; capital

Beirut (7)

18 See 23 Across 19 United Provinces of Agra and —, region of India under the

British Raj (4)

20 1990s BBC TV sitcom starring Lenny Henry and Roger

Griffiths (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror

Crossword ACROSS

3 Any procession (9) 8 Minute particle (4) 9 Instantly (2,1,5) 10 Acute infectious viral

disease (6) 13 Drink made from

apples (5) 14 Suitcases etc (7) 15 Total (3) 16 Become calmer (3,4) 17 Compact, firm (5) 21 Quest (6) 22 Unequal sporting

contest (8) 23 Soon (4) 24 Aboriginal missile (9)

DOWN

1 Act of killing one’s

mother (9)

2 Taboo (9)

4 Stupid (5)

5 Word puzzle (7)

6 Without heat (4)

7 Plate (4)

11 Anna Pavlova, eg (9) 12 Help, assist (4,1,4)

14 Hairstyle (3)

15 Pullover (7)

18 Pallid (5)

19 Code word for the

letter K (4)

20 Mosque prayer

leader (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror