Quiz Crossword
ACROSS
1 Lady Elizabeth, mother of Queen Elizabeth II of the UK (5-4) 8 Forename of the songwriting partner and brother of George Gershwin (3) 9 Actress who portrayed Helen Berger Miller in the film The Glenn Miller Story (4,7) 11 1975 film starring, co-written and produced by Warren Beatty (7) 12 Rhys, actor whose film roles include Beaufield Nutbeem in The Shipping News (5) 13 Bertolt, German dramatist whose plays include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) 15 Genus of creeping grasses named after the botanist Karl von Zois zu Laubach (6) 17 Old Testament brother of Moses who was the first high priest of the Israelites (5) 18 Queen of Lydia in Greek mythology who purchased Heracles as a slave (7) 20 Tropical animal that is called a walking stick in the US (5,6) 22 Collective noun for a flock of pheasants (3) 23 Morocco-born winner of the 1991 New South Wales Open men’s singles tennis tournament (3,6)
DOWN
2 Yasujiro, Tokyo-born film director who died in 1963 (3) 3 In music, an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone (5) 4 and 11 George Dunning animated film featuring songs by The Beatles (6,9) 5 City in Akita, Japan that incorporated the town of Futatsui in 2006 (7) 6 Name by which Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture is known (7,4) 7 Play by Harold Pinter first produced in 1969 (9) 10 1960 Wimbledon men’s singles tennis champion (5,6) 11 See 4 14 Anne, US winner of the 1972 Winter Olympic women’s 500m speed skating gold medal (7)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:
- 1 Los Angeles. 7 Aisne. 8 Dodgers. 10 Antigone. 11 Pear. 13 Little. 15 Baltic. 17 Ohio. 18 Children. 21 Elphick. 22 Rabin. 23 Butter bean.
Down:
- 1 Liszt. 2 Svengali. 3 Nadine. 4 Eddy. 5 Everett. 6 Zabaglione. 9 Strychnine. 12 Mallarmé. 14 Thimphu. 16 Chukar. 19 Robin. 20 Pint.