SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No283
We are offering a €50 book token to three Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy
ACROSS: 7. Who recorded the rock and roll classic Tutti
Frutti? (6,7) 8. Nicknamed the Grinder, who was the first player to score a maximum break of 147 at the world snooker championships? (8) 9. Type of boat popular in Cambridge and Oxford.
(4) 10. Which group had a worldwide number one in
1996 with a version of Killing Me Softly? (6) 12. Which country is home to law firm Mossack Fonseca, source of sensitive documents leaked earlier this year? (6) 14. Which country was formerly known as British
Honduras? (6) 16. ______ Manley Hopkins: English poet buried in
Glasnevin. (6) 18. Nickname of Martin O’Neill’s predecessor. (4) 20. Language created by the authorities in George
Orwell’s 1984. (8) 22. “Catchphrase” of Long John Silver’s parrot in
Treasure Island. (6,2,5) DOWN: 1. Who is Bart Simpson’s best friend? (8) 2. Laurence ______: Irish-born author of Tristram Shandy. (6) 3. Brothers Jeff and ____ Bridges starred in 1989’s The Fabulous Baker Boys. (4) 4. This Canadian city was the indirect inspiration for the name of a much-loved fictional teddy bear. (8) 5. Warsaw Airport was renamed in whose honour
in 2001? (6) 6. Christopher ____ designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in
London. (4) 11. Which UK resort was the location of the first
Butlins holiday camp? (8) 13. Type of traditional folk music(ian) from Mexico.
(8) 15. Ireland’s largest public sector trade union. (6) 17. “The time to ______ the roof is when the sun is
shining”, John F Kennedy. (6) 19. What does the R in NBRU stand for? (4) 21. The Time Traveller’s ____: popular novel and film. (4) Solutions to Sunday Independent Quizword No 282 ACROSS: 4. Tara. 6. Colombo. 8. Kundera. 9. Peig. 10. Groening. 13. Earn. 14. Rams. 15. UHT. 17. Blue. 19. Oboe. 20. Day Shift. 22. Rita. 24. Cameron. 26. Alvarez. 27. Knox. DOWN: 1. Note. 2. Douglas. 3. Joker. 4. Tinder. 5. Rue. 7. Baggies. 10. Gnu. 11. Idle. 12. Art Deco. 13. Emly. 16. Tot. 17. Boorman. 18. Thorax. 21. Fanad. 23. Tree. 25. Man. Winners of Sunday Independent Quizword No 282 Aoife McGuinness, Shantulla, Co Galway Eamonn O’Keeffe, Ballyroe Lower, Kilfinane, Co Limerick Peter Faherty Coleman, Rathgar, Dublin 6 Post your entries to Sunday Independent Quizword No 283, Sunday Independent, 27-32 Talbot Street, Dublin D01 X2E1, to arrive by Thursday morning next. Faxes are unacceptable. Prizes will be awarded to the first three all-correct entries opened. Please allow up to six weeks for receipt of your prize, and would entrants also remember to include a phone number with their address, simply as an extra aid to contacting winners. If you are a winner and have any queries in relation to your prize, please ring our dedicated hotline on: (01) 705-5161 NAME ADDRESS