SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No435

We are offering a €50 book token to three Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy

ACROSS: 1. Hometown of golfer Shane Lowry. (5) 4. Socrates died by drinking which poison? (7) 7. _____ Kirwan: Irish actor and writer. (5) 8. Anna _____: camogie star turned broadcaster.

(5) 9. Capital city located on the Caspian Sea. (4) 10. Whose biggest hit was Achy Breaky Heart? (5) 13. ______ von der Leyen is president-elect of the

European Commission. (6) 16. Odds-on favourite to win this year’s BBC Sports

Personality of the Year award. (6) 19. Girl’s name popularised by JM Barrie’s Peter

Pan. (5) 22. Term for a male horse under the age of four. (4) 23. Which breed of wild dog is indigenous to Australia? (5) 24. World-famous Roman fountain. (5) 25. In The Lion King, what kind of animal is Timon?

(7) 26. Cylinder-shaped pasta. (5) DOWN: 2. Citrus-based slang for a Briton. (5) 3. Blood is classified as ______ positive or negative.

(6) 4. Who played Crocodile Dundee? (5) 5. Who became the most expensive defender ever when he joined Manchester United last summer? (7) 6. Host of Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats Does

Countdown. (4) 10. Who does Michael Douglas have an affair with in

Fatal Attraction? (5) 11. Which 70s group had a hit with Tiger Feet? (3) 12. Hero of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. (5) 14. Which member of a rowing team doesn’t row?

(3) 15. The Abbey Theatre’s secondary stage. (7) 17. & 18. Who wrote Middlemarch and The Mill on

the Floss? (6,5) 20. In which English county is Dartmoor? (5) 21. New political group founded by Paul Murphy

TD. (4)