Quiz Crossword

ACROSS

1 Tom, US humorist whose songs include The Masochism Tango and The Old Dope Peddler (6) 4 Large game fish of warm and tropical seas that is also called a spearfish (6) 9 “The ... ... ”, John Duigan film starring Steve Coogan as Simon Garden (6,7) 10 Small loudspeaker designed to reproduce high-pitched sounds in a hi-fi system (7) 11 Musical instruction that a piece be performed slowly (5) 12 Nevil, author of the novel A Town Like Alice (5) 14 Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu film starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett (5) 18 Henrik, author of the 1877 play The Pillars of Society (5) 19 and 21 Christopher Guest film featuring the director as Jay Berman (3,4,13) 21 See 19 22 1993 film thriller written and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel (6) 23 Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry in Greek mythology (6)

DOWN

1 Flying island in the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver’s Travels (6) 2 Tree whose nut is called a conker (5,8) 3 Port in Israel on the Gulf of Aqaba (5) 5 Plant of Europe and Asia that is also called lucerne (7) 6 1989 John Glen film starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond (7,2,4) 7 Edward, actor who portrayed Nelson Rockefeller in the film Frida (6) 8 See 16 13 Port in Morocco on the Strait of Gibraltar (7) 15 The 12th sign of the zodiac (6) 16 and 8 Martin Scorsese film comedy starring Griffin Dunne (5,5) 17 Muse of astronomy in Greek mythology (6) 20 European freshwater fish, Rutilus rutilus (5)