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Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
6 Actor who played
Bill Compton in US television series True Blood from 2008-14 (7,5) 8 1970s US television drama series starring Dennis Weaver as a New Mexico cop in New York City (7) 9 Market town in the Scottish Borders at the confluence of the Rivers Teviot and Tweed (5)
10 Number of sheets of paper equal to 20 quires (4)
12 2001 film drama starring Dougray Scott and Kate Winslet (6)
14 and 21 US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The
Secret Life of
Walter Mitty (5,7) 15 Artist of the Venetian School born in Pieve di Cadore, Italy, whose works include The Death of Actaeon (6) 16 Robert —, actor and comedian whose credits include
The Smoking Room and Peep Show (4) 19 Yutaka —, 2004-08 WBA Strawweight champion (5)
21 See 14 Across
22 and 4 Down 19th-century English poet who coined the term sprung rhythm (6,6,7)
DOWN
1 Vivien —, actress; first wife of playwright Harold Pinter (8)
2 1977 film comedy starring John Denver and George Burns (2,3)
3 Positive electrode in
an electrolytic cell (5)
4 See 22 Across
5 See 11 Down
6 Charity founded by
Chad Varah in 1953 (10)
7 Hybrid of blackberry and raspberry cultivated for its edible fruit (10)
11 and 5 2000 Olympic men’s trap shooting silver medallist (3,4) 12 Fish with a long snake-like body and reduced fins (3)
13 1956 Olympic men’s long jump gold medallist (4,4) 14 Handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin; a variety of pilota (3,4) 17 Wes —, actor who played Eytukan in 2009 action film Avatar (5)
18 1998 animated film based on a
Chinese legend whose title character is voiced by
Ming-na Wen (5)
20 Charles —,
American modernist composer of the four-movement A Symphony: New England Holidays (4)
Crossword
ACROSS
6 Fully committed supporter (4-2,6) 8 Musical performance (7) 9 Spanish man (5) 10 Lazy (4) 12 Association of sports clubs (6) 14 Cold dish (5) 15 Threaded fasteners (6) 16 Remain in the same place (4) 19 Last Greek letter (5)
21 Tableland (7) 22 In spite of that (12)
DOWN
1 Letter sent to many people (8) 2 Glazing paste (5)
3 Stink (5)
4 Broken into pieces (7) 5 Fronded plant (4) 6 Authorisation (10) 7 Glutton (6,4)
11 Used to be (3) 12 Overtake to become a circuit ahead (3) 13 Harvested a crop (8)
14 Pullover (7)
17 Pimples (5) 18 Bellybutton (5)
20 Flat (4)