SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No462
We are offering a €50 One4all Gift Card to three Sunday Independent readers with this Quizword, compiled by John Murphy
ACROSS:
1. German group regarded as pioneers of electronic
music. (9)
8. Whose move to PSG in 2017 remains the most
expensive soccer transfer of all time? (6)
9. Who led the US cavalry at the Battle of Little
Bighorn? (6)
10. American TV judge. (4)
12. Building society set up by teachers in 1935.(1,1,1) 13. David ____: former BBC presenter who became
a controversial conspiracy theorist. (4)
16. ______ People: Sally Rooney best-seller. (6)
17. Who is the leader of Aontu? (6)
18. Who played Sam Tyler, the leading character in the BBC drama series Life on Mars? (4)
21. The Princess and the ___: Hans Christian
Andersen story. (3)
22. Former England rugby international now part of
the Ireland coaching team. (4)
24. Cricketer’s exclamation to claim an opponent
should be out. (6)
25. Who was the singer in Soft Cell? (6)
26. Which Co Kerry village was Tom Crean from? (9)
DOWN:
2. Popular card game. (5)
3. Who played the title role in Anchorman: The
Legend of Ron Burgundy? (7)
4. Fitness guru known as “the Body Coach”. (5) 5. Potato-based dish originally from Switzerland. (5) 6. In which country are Cusco and Arequipa? (4) 7. Long, narrow part of a guitar. (4)
10. Which Rolling Stone died in 1969? (5)
11. What kind of wheat is used to make pasta? (5) 14. British government’s emergency committee. (5) 15. Young’s business partner. (5)
17. What is the name of Ireland’s Agriculture and
Food Development Authority? (7)
19. Cast, pig and wrought are varieties of what? (4) 20. Crookhaven and Goleen are villages on which
peninsula? (5)
21. Which city, built into rock, is Jordan’s mostvisited tourist attraction? (5)
22. Adam Price is the leader of Plaid _____. (5)
23. On which river is the city of Newcastle built? (4)
Solutions to Sunday Independent
Quizword No 461
ACROSS: 7. Freddy Krueger. 8. Tomorrow. 9. Mute. 10. Bowers. 12. Hertha. 14. Gerbil. 16. Rhonda. 18. Leia. 20. Nag’s Head. 22. Fiddler’s Green.
DOWN: 1. Creosote. 2. I Drove. 3. Dyer. 4. Crowther. 5. Weimar. 6. Heat. 11. Salinger. 13. Hydrated. 15. Brando. 17. Others. 19. Eoin. 21. Gist.
Winners of Sunday Independent Quizword No 461
Pat Cooling, Dundalk, Co Louth James Loughlin, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Anthony Quinn, Malahide, Co Dublin
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