SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No441
We are offering a €50 book token to three Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy
ACROSS: 1. Song sung by Captain von Trapp in The Sound of
Music. (9)
8. Who is the Garda Commissioner? (6)
9. Name shared by Bob Marley album and Old
Testament book. (6)
10. Recently confirmed for the “Legends Slot” at
next year’s Glastonbury Festival. (4)
12. Harvard, Yale and Princeton are all members of
which league? (3)
13. Mineral used to make cosmetics, chalk etc. (4) 16. What is the most common surname in the
Netherlands? (2,4)
17. Son of Joe Biden. (6)
18. 1981 film nominated for 12 Oscars. (4)
21. Which company is nicknamed Big Blue? (1,1,1) 22. What is the unit of currency in Thailand? (4) 24. Le ______ is France’s oldest national daily
newspaper. (6)
25. Which Renaissance painter lends his name to a
shade of red hair? (6)
26. Who is the Director-General of RTE? (3,6) DOWN: 2. & 3. Which British writer won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2007? (5,7)
4. Who is the manager of Arsenal FC? (5)
5. Which Irish actor played Moriarty in the BBC’s
Sherlock? (5)
6. Biggest city in the Algarve. (4)
7. On which island is the Royal Dublin golf club? (4) 10. Actress who has made something of a comeback
with Stranger Things. (5)
11. First name of the chancellor of the exchequer in
the UK. (5) 14. One of Opel’s best-selling cars. (5)
15. Unit used to measure the purity of gold. (5)
17. Freddie Starr Ate My _______: infamous tabloid
headline. (7)
19. Son of Donald Trump. (4)
20. & 21. Taylor Swift’s most-viewed video on
YouTube. (5,2,3)
22. How do you say “please” in German? (6)
23. The Hitler Diaries were a famous ____. (4)