Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword

ACROSS

1 City north-east of

Milan that hosts the F1 Italian GP (5)

4 See 21 Down

10 City in Friuli-venezia Giulia, NE Italy, partially damaged by an earthquake in 1976 (5) 11 Capital of Cyprus (7)

12 and 15

1963 adventure film starring Steve Mcqueen and James Garner (3,5,6)

13 Cultivated variety of cabbage with crinkled leaves (4)

15 See 12 Across

17 and 24

Hybrid of Pyrenean Saxifrage and St Patrick’s-cabbage with pinkish-white flowers (6,5)

19 City in Uttar Pradesh, India, famous for the Taj Mahal (4)

20 1973 Wimbledon men’s singles tennis championship winner (3,5)

23 and 25

Resort on the Atlantic coast of NE Florida, US, south of Jacksonville (7,5) 24 See 17 Across 25 See 23 Across 26 Member of a confederacy of Native Americans now living chiefly in Oklahoma (5)

DOWN

2 Pointed arch in Gothic

architecture (5)

3 Optical toy consisting of a rotating cylinder with a sequence of pictures on its inner surface (8)

5 Notch at the end of an arrow that receives the bowstring (4)

6 Edmond —, French playwright; author of 1897 verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac (7) 7 2005 novel by Barbara

Taylor Bradford (4,7)

8 Former kingdom and French protectorate of E Indochina now part of Vietnam (5)

9 Type of doorless continuously moving lift first built in 1884 as the Cyclic Elevator (11) 14 Maltese —, European plant of the daisy family with yellow thistle-like flower heads (8)

16 Robert —, actor who played the title role in 1990s BBC TV series Hamish Macbeth (7) 18 River that forms most of the border between Cornwall and Devon (5) 21 and 4 Across

2011 action film starring Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard (5,5)

22 Old World monkey such as the black-shanked — or red-shanked — (4)

Crossword

ACROSS

1 Eat rapidly (5)

4 Emerge from an egg (5)

10 Smell (5)

11 Perplex, bewilder (7)

12 Assume control of (4,4)

13 Rescue (4)

15 Stand down from one’s job (6) 17 Stiffened undergarment (6)

19 Allowing access to inside (4) 20 Very hot curry (8)

23 Domed building (7)

24 Noisy commotion or fuss (3-2) 25 Hang loosely (5)

26 Stupid (5)

DOWN

2 Earthenware pot or

jar (5)

3 Leave of absence

from the military (8) 5 Fever (4)

6 Orienteering item (7) 7 Graduation cap (11)

8 Much of the time (5) 9 Unusually good (11) 14 Wallpaper type (8)

16 Shielded place (7)

18 Ultimate, last (5)

21 Plunders (5)

22 Unfasten (4)