Quiz Crossword

ACROSS 1 Body part (7) 7 Frozen spike (6) 8 Evident (7) 9 Strong impulse (4) 10 Vend (4) 12 Glaringly conspicuous (7) 14 Ridicule or contempt (7) 16 Firing of a gun or cannon (4) 18 Cold weather (4) 20 Inert gas (7) 21 Deprive of food (6) 22 Put at a loss (7) DOWN 1 Wreckage (7) 2 Take pleasure or wallow (5) 3 At the summit (4) 4 Avaricious (7) 5 Places or locates (8) 6 Large wine or cider bottle (6) 11 Tepid (8) 12 Type of coarse fern (7) 13 Lockjaw (7) 15 Elaborately adorned (6) 17 Code word for ‘H’ (5) 19 Mr Gosling, actor (4) 4 Contagious skin infection that is caused by the itch mite (7) 8 Harry S, 33rd President of the US (6) 9 Former province of Japan that was famous for its porcelain (7) 10 Sol, US artist who died in 2007 whose works include the structure Double Negative Pyramid (6) 11 “The ...”, 1979 novel by Peter Benchley (6) 12 Town in NE Iran that was the birthplace of the poet Omar Khayyam (8) 18 King of Corinth in Greek mythology who was condemned to push a heavy stone up a hill for eternity (8) 20 and 5 Down Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for West Side Story (6,8) 21 Max, German physicist who first formulated the quantum theory (6) 22 Feudal code of the Japanese samurai (7) 23 Son of Manto in Greek mythology associated with the city of Colophon (6) 24 Joan, New Zealand-born soprano and violinist who died in 1996 (7) 1 Town in County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland on the River Shannon (7) 2 Venue in Nova Scotia of a 1957 international peace conference (7) 3 and 17 US choreographer who was named Dancer of the Century by Time Magazine in 1998 (6,6) 5 See 20 Across 6 Igneous rock that is the commonest type of solidified lava (6) 7 ... National Park in New Zealand houses the dormant volcano Mount Taranaki (6) 13 God of the sea and of earthquakes in Greek mythology (8) 14 Three-act opera by Shostakovich that was first performed in 1930 (3,4) 15 US city and summer resort in E. Wisconsin situated on the western shore of Lake Winnebago (7) 16 Large white sturgeon of the Black and Caspian Seas (6) 17 See 3 19 Colour of the ball worth two points in snooker (6)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: - 1 As You Like It. 9 Poe. 10 Hollyhock. 11 Tibia. 13 Ontario. 14 Binchy. 16 Endive. 18 Rhizome. 19 Boeuf. 20 Enchilada. 21 Ops. 22 Bourguignon. Down: 2 She. 3 Ochoa. 4 Liliom. 5 Krypton. 6 In Our Time. 7 Spitsbergen. 8 Oktoberfest. 12 Ben Jipcho. 15 Hoosier. 17 Déjà Vu. 19 Bragg. 21 Omo.