Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Bellows-mender in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5)
4 R G —, New Zealand cricketer who hit 103 in the 6th ODI against South Africa at Cape Town in 2000 (5)
10 Three-dimensional shape in geometry resembling a ring doughnut (5)
11 Large basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano (7)
12 Collection of organisms inhabiting the surface layer of a sea or lake (8)
13 James —, Scottish engineer and inventor who improved the steam engine (4)
15 and 17 Best Actor in a Supporting
Role Oscar winner for The Barefoot Contessa (6,6)
17 See 15 Across
19 See 5 Down
20 Biblical son of
Asahel (8)
23 Ray —, winner of the 1970 World Snooker Championship (7)
24 and 25
1921 Booth Tarkington novel awarded the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (5,5)
25 See 24 Across 26 Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia series by
C S Lewis (5)
DOWN
2 Federico Garcia —, Spanish poet who authored 1934 stage play Yerma (5)
3 Capital of
Uzbekistan (8)
5 and 19 Across
2009 novel by Hilary Mantel (4,4)
6 Gwen —, singer-actress who portrayed Jean Harlow in 2004 biopic The Aviator (7)
7 James Joyce novel published posthumously in
1944 (7,4)
8 1938 Evelyn Waugh novel featuring the character Lord
Copper (5)
9 Actor who starred as Jed Bartlet in US television drama series The West Wing (6,5)
14 Harold —, 1924 Olympic
100m gold medallist (8) 16 Common duck, the male of which has a dark green head and reddish-brown breast (7)
18 Molly —, author of 1981 Booker Prize-nominated novel Good
Behaviour (5)
21 Tourist island of the Balearics in the Mediterranean (5)
22 Mild yellow Dutch
cheese (4)
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Fly without engine
power (5)
4 Thieve (5)
10 Harvests (5)
11 Guacamole ingredient (7) 12 Borrowing charge (8)
13 Privy to (2,2)
15 Paradise (6)
17 Reflected light (6)
19 Young sheep (4)
20 Golf term (8)
23 Flower wreath (7)
24 Tarnish (5)
25 Flat dish (5)
26 Group of 20 (5)
DOWN
2 Minimum (5)
3 Disarray (8)
5 Horse’s gait (4)
6 Versus (7)
7 Study of birds (11) 8 Round-up rope used by a cowboy (5)
9 Bedspread (11)
14 Dead end (3-2-3) 16 Naval
commander (7) 18 Touches down (5) 21 Seat (5)
22 Set of actors (4)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror