Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword
ACROSS
6 1991 crime drama film starring Ice Cube and Cuba Gooding Jr (4,1,3,4)
8 River in North
America that flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario (7)
9 Patricia —, actress who played the title role in 1983 ITV series Jemima Shore Investigates (5)
10 Old Testament Hebrew prophet of the 8th-century BC (4)
12 Pat —, first woman, in 1956, to ride in an Olympics showjumping event (6)
14 1990 UK No 1 single by Madonna (5)
15 Number represented by XI in Roman numerals (6)
16 Official language of Pakistan also spoken in India (4)
19 Jan —, 1973
Wimbledon men’s singles tennis championship winner (5)
21 John —, Secretary of State for War from 1960-63 (7)
22 and 4 Down
2002 novel by Liz Jensen (3,6,3,3,4)
DOWN
1 Eurasian maple tree with yellow flowers and two-winged fruits (8) 2 Title character in
1826 J F Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans (5)
3 Member of a body of lancers first employed in the Polish army (5)
4 See 22 Across 5 Stephen —, actor who played Messala in 1959 action film Ben-hur (4) 6 Alona —, 2008 Australian Open women’s doubles tennis championship winner with sister Kateryna (10)
7 Simone —, French existentialist philosopher who authored 1949 work The Second Sex (2,8)
11 River that rises in the Cairngorm Mountains before flowing east to the North Sea (3)
12 Josef —, Czech composer of symphony Asrael and tone poem A Summer’s Tale (3)
13 1664 play by
Moliere (8)
14 Gianni —, Italian fashion designer shot dead in Florida, US in 1997 (7) 17 European kingdom whose capital is
Madrid (5)
18 Marion —, 1997 and 1999 IAAF World Championships 100m gold medallist (5)
20 One sixteenth of an ounce in the avoirdupois system of weights (4)
Crossword
ACROSS
6 Supposed alien
spaceship (6,6)
8 Spite (7)
9 Big (5)
10 Meshes (4)
12 Luxurious
fabric (6)
14 Intense beam of
light (5)
15 Morally bad (6)
16 Competent (4)
19 Person giving
blood (5)
21 Medium (7)
22 When looking back
on the past (2,10)
DOWN
1 Having a mesmerising
effect (8)
2 Bar of gold (5)
3 Operators (5)
4 One who constructs
houses (7)
5 Beloved (4)
6 Everywhere (3,3,4)
7 Colonisation (10)
11 Unhappy (3)
12 Anger, annoy (3)
13 Shakes or judders (8) 14 Erudite, deeply read (7) 17 Hirsute (5)
18 Stop (5)
20 Religious sisters (4)