SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No474

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

ACROSS:

1. 2FM DJ who was one of the co-hosts of the recent RTE Does Comic Relief show. (9)

8. Earth Angel and Duke of Earl are examples of

which style of music? (3,3)

9. German who won the Irish Open three times. (6)

10. English boxer twice defeated by Steve Collins. (4)

12. Which singer is name-checked in the first line of Come On Eileen? (3)

13. What is the name of the snowman in Frozen? (4)

16. For which film did John Gielgud, at the age of 76, win his only Oscar? (6)

17. Peninsula across the Mersey from Liverpool. (6)

18. Ag Criost an ____: traditional Irish hymn. (4)

21. In the Bible, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt. (3)

22. “This very night before the cock crows, you will ____ me three times”, Matthew 26:34. (4)

24. Made famous in a 1993 MTV Unplugged performance, whose guitar recently sold for $6m? (6)

25. “It’s like rain on your wedding day” is a line in which song? (6)

26. In which US state is Chattanooga? (9)

DOWN:

2. Current Minister for Agriculture and Marine. (5)

3. What is the largest known type of penguin? (7)

4. RTE’s Industry & Employment Correspondent. (5)

5. Complete this sequence from the Nato phonetic alphabet: Romeo, Sierra, _____, Uniform. (5)

6. First name of late basketball star Bryant. (4)

7. “I think that I shall never ___ _ poem as lovely as a tree”, Joyce Kilmer. (3,1)

10. Apple paid $3bn for this audio brand in 2014. (5)

11. What ___ __ Wear: TV fashion series. (3,2)

14. Where did unionists land thousands of rifles in 1914? (5)

15. Who is the new Minister for Education? (5)

17. Only woman to have hosted the Rose of Tralee.(7)

19. Small, clickable image on a computer screen. (4)

20. Dominic Cummings co-founded Vote _____. (5)

21. Official name of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. (5)

22. What do you call a male honeybee? (5)

23. Martin Sheen spent a term here in 2006. (1,1,1,1)