SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No466

We are offering a €50 One4all Gift Card to three Sunday Independent readers with this Quizword, compiled by John Murphy

ACROSS:

7. USA For Africa single inspired by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas. (2,3,3,5)

8. Mahon Falls and Coumshingaun Lough are located in the ________ Mountains. (8)

9. ____ Ruane: recently re-elected independent senator. (4)

10. Superhero flick Avengers: Endgame overtook ______ as the highest-grossing film of all time last year. (6)

12. In which Indian city are Bollywood films made? (6)

14. Vanilla flavouring is extracted from a variety of which flower? (6)

16. In which museum is the Venus de Milo on display? (6)

18. “When the moon hits your eye like _ ___ pizza pie, that’s amore”, Dean Martin. (1,3)

20. Who wrote and sang the 1978 hit song Baker Street? (8)

22. Nickname of Muhammad Ali. (10,3)

DOWN:

1. Taxman is the first song on which

Beatles album? (8)

2. Complete the name of this London football club: Leyton ______. (6)

3. This Italian volcano is the most active in Europe. (4)

4. Butter, milk and flour are the main ingredients for which classic French sauce? (8)

5. Which Lord of the Rings character refers to the ring as “Precious”? (6)

6. “Everybody has a ____ until they get punched in the mouth”, Mike Tyson. (4)

11. Who was voted the BBC’s all-time Sports Personality by viewers in 2003? (8)

13. In George Orwell’s 1984, Britain is called ________ One. (8)

15. What is the name of the gamekeeper at Hogwarts? (6)

17. Gymnastics apparatus the asymmetric bars are also called ______ bars. (6)

19. One of the President’s pet dogs. (4)

21. Thin pastry. (4)

Solutions to Sunday Independent

Quizword No 465

ACROSS: 1. Walk On Air. 8. Colman. 9. Reflex. 10. Must. 12. Uma. 13. Ryde. 16. Hickok. 17. Parrot. 18.

TFIF. 21. JWT. 22. Meir. 24. Scrubs. 25. Darwin. 26.

Atonement.

DOWN: 2. Admit. 3. Kanturk. 4. Norma. 5. It For.

6. Lomu. 7. Reid. 10. My Hat. 11. Sochi. 14. Yorke.

15. Enter. 17. Potsdam. 19. Face. 20. Faust. 21. Jason. 22. Moran. 23. Iris.

Winners of Sunday Independent Quizword No 465

■ Steve Clohessy, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14

■ Dorothy Quinn, Blackrock, Co Dublin

■ Sean Duffy, Riverside, Galway