Quiz Crossword
ACROSS
1 Director and star of the films Mon Oncle and Playtime (7,4) 9 City in central Sweden which was the royal headquarters in the 13th Century (7) 10 Anouk, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Un homme et une femme (5) 11 Poisonous snake of Southeast Asia such as the banded …, Bungarus fasciatus (5) 12 Michael, composer of the oratorio A Child of Our Time (7) 13 Biblical owner of a vineyard adjoining Ahab’s palace (6) 15 and 19 Down Character who lends his name to Chapter 26 of R.L. Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island (6,5) 18 Charles, Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland 1987-92 (7) 20 J.B., England Test cricketer known as ‘The Master’ who was knighted in 1953 (5) 22 Odilon, French symbolist painter whose works include 1898’s Vierge nimbée (5) 23 Gwendolen, heroine of George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda (7) 24 Aria sung by Calaf in Act III of the Puccini opera Turandot (6,5)
DOWN
2 First letter in the Greek alphabet (5) 3 A group of four singers or instrumentalists (7) 4 In ballet, a body position in which one arm and the same leg are extended at the side of the body (6) 5 Twyla, US dancer and choreographer born in 1942 (5) 6 Painting medium for powdered pigments consisting of egg yolk and water (7) 7 Lawyer to Sir Leicester Dedlock in Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House (11) 8 Orazio, Pisa-born painter whose works include 1628’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt (11) 14 Martin, the winner, with John Nielsen and Price Cobb, of the 1990 Le Mans 24-hour race (7) 16 TNJ, President of Indonesia 1967-98 (7) 17 Large nonvenomous snake of Africa, Asia, and Australia that kills by constriction (6) 19 See 15 Across 21 Julian, English guitarist and lutenist born in 1933 (5)
FRIRDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: - 1 Nicholas. 5 Gibb. 9 Loki. 10 Nickleby. 11 Bilko. 12 Eireann. 13 Karl-Marx-Stadt. 18 Newspeak. 19 Dail. 20 Choctaw. 21 Gouda. 22 Pike. 23 Bruce Lee.
Down: - 2 Iwo Jima. 3 Heinkel. 4 An Ice-Cream War. 6 Ikebana. 7 Bayonet. 8 Skyros. 13 Kingcup. 14 Rowlock. 15 Maputo. 16 Tadpole. 17 Deirdre.