Quiz Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sir Douglas, British fighter pilot who lost both his legs in a flying accident in 1931 (5) 4 Queen of the fairies in the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (7) 8 District of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that is a popular holiday resort (7) 9 1978 stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (5) 10 Francisco de ..., Spanish painter and etcher who died in 1828 (4) 11 Sandra, actress whose film roles include Minerva Mayflower in Hudson Hawk (8) 13 Herbert Beerbohm, English actor-theatre manager who died in 1917 (4) 14 Heinrich, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature (4) 16 Poisonous evergreen shrub also called rosebay (8) 17 River in SW Australia that flows to the Indian Ocean below Perth (4) 20 A type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one (5) 21 Large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch (7) 22 Sarah Kemble, English actress who died in 1831 (7) 23 Mamo, 1968 Olympic men’s marathon champion (5)

DOWN

1 and 2 Sharon Maguire film starring Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth (7,6,5) 2 See 1 Down 3 Fast-running flightless bird of South America (4) 4 River upon which London, England stands (6) 5 and 13 Down John Barth novel whose central character is Jacob Horner (3,3,2,3,4) 6 VS, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) 7 Actress whose film roles include Lucy Irvine in Castaway (6,7) 12 Actor who played the title role in the 1994 film Léon (4,4) 13 See 5 15 In Greek mythology, the messenger and herald of the gods (6) 18 One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint (5) 19 Small compact duck of N Europe and Asia (4)