SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No 402
We are offering a €50 book token to three Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy
ACROSS: 1. Charles Darwin’s visit to which islands in the Pacific Ocean were crucial to the development of his theory of evolution? (9) 8. Thomas Carlyle famously labelled Economics “the
______ science”. (6) 9. Kate Kearney’s Cottage marks the start of the
Gap of ______. (6) 10. Destructive insect/animal or annoying person. (4) 12. “___ is me! for I am undone”, Isaiah 6:5. (3) 13. Which company “put a tiger in your tank”? (4) 16. Quantum Of ______: 2008 Bond movie. (6) 17. Which word did US vice president Dan Quayle
famously misspell? (6) 18. Who sings Shotgun and Budapest? (4) 21. Los del ___ had a hit with Macarena. (3) 22. A bitter, long-standing dispute, particularly
between two families. (4) 24. Captain Sensible is a member of veteran punk
band The ______. (6) 25. Who was the winner of the most recent series of
the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing? (6) 26. Who was King Arthur’s wife? (9) DOWN: 2. “I’ve got to _____ it’s getting better”, Beatles. (5) 3. Famous cave in the Burren. (9) 4. First name of star of Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral. (5) 5. Equivalent to 28.35g. (5) 6. Football: who recently declared for England
despite having three senior caps for Ireland? (4) 7. Siamsa ____ Laoi was a music festival in Cork. (4) 10. Term for a downhill ski run. (5) 11. Earth belongs to which planetary system? (5) 14. _____ Toulousain have won the Heineken Cup a
joint record four times. (5) 15. Irish star of The IT Crowd and Moone Boy. (5) 17. Bulgaria’s second-biggest city and current European City of Culture. (7) 19. Enthusiastic devotion to an ideal. (4) 20. Name the new political party founded by former
Sinn Fein TD Peadar Toibin. (5) 21. Sculptor famous for the Kiss and the Thinker. (5) 22. Gymnastics space measuring 12m x 12m. (5) 23. Second-hand. (4)