SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No275
We are offering a €50 book token to three lucky Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy
ACROSS:
4. Who goes into today’s final as top points scorer in this year’s Gaelic football championship? (4) 6. Home ground of FC Barcelona. (4,3) 8. Which district is the most expensive property on the London Monopoly board? (7) 9. Who directed the Quiet Man? (4) 10. Manager of the Mayo Gaelic football team. (8) 13. ____ jumping: extreme sport. (4) 14. Who married Mick Jagger in 1990? (4) 15. ___ Holliday took part in the Gunfight at the OK Corral. (3) 17. Small, clickable image on a computer screen. (4) 19. Term for a female deer. (4) 20. Family featured in The Godfather. (8) 22. A tiny amount, or the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. (4) 24. Recently named Lions coach for next year’s tour of New Zealand. (7) 26. Which judge famously used the phrase “appalling vista” in connection with the Birmingham Six? (7) 27. Jealousy is “the green-____ monster”. (4)
DOWN:
1. Which city’s airport serves the Algarve? (4) 2. Where is Ros na Rún filmed? (7) 3. The name of which circus elephant entered the English language as a word meaning “huge”? (5) 4. What does the R in R&B stand for? (6) 5. Veteran Cork comedy duo: ___ and Miah. (3) 7. The Roman god Neptune is usually portrayed holding what? (7) 10. What is the name of Morgan Freeman’s character in the Shawshank Redemption? (3) 11. Organisation made up of 35 of the world’s wealthiest democracies. (1,1,1,1) 12. The _______ Rose triumphed in Tralee last month? (7) 13. Who had hits with Song 2 and Girls & Boys? (4) 16. Ernesto Guevara’s nickname. (3) 17. President Higgins studied at which US university? (7) 18. “For ‘tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own ______”, Shakespeare, Hamlet. (6) 21. Friends with Tessie Bear and Big Ears. (5) 23. The Battle of Kursk in 1943 was the biggest ____ battle in history. (4) 25. What is the longest river in Scotland? (3)
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