Quizword & Crossword

Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.

Quizword ACROSS

6 University town in Leicestershire (12) 8 Capital of the former colony of Dutch East Indies; present-day Jakarta, Indonesia (7) 9 Jennie —, actress who played Kelly Taylor in US television series Beverly Hills, 90210 (5) 10 2009 film drama starring Sam Rockwell and Dominique Mcelligott (4)

12 Paul —, US author of novels Let It Come Down and The Sheltering Sky (6) 14 Large long-tailed tropical American parrot such as the military — (5)

15 Kenneth —, 1950

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner for novel Adventure

Lit Their Star (6)

16 Miles —, actor and comedian who played Archie in BBC TV children’s series Balamory (4) 19 Port in Israel on the Bay of Acre (5) 21 Coffea —, most widely grown coffee plant species (7)

22 Principal area in northeast Wales; administrative HQ Ruthin (12)

DOWN

1 Area of the south central US denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s (4,4)

2 Purple-flowered plant whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking (5) 3 2006 film comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role (5) 4 Hand-drawn weapon used in medieval England for hunting and warfare (7) 5 Tourist city in Heves, northeast Hungary, at the centre of a wine-producing region (4)

6 University city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo founded in 1910 as Elisabethville (10)

7 and 12 Inlet of the Atlantic in Maryland and Virginia, US (10,3) 11 Card game similar to whist (3)

12 See 7 Down

13 Ivan —, Croatia tennis player; 2005 Davis Cup winner (8) 14 1953 adventure film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly (7) 17 Tropical Asian tree with orange-yellow ovoid fruit (5)

18 Felipe —, 2002 and 2004-17 F1 driver; 2006-08 Turkish GP winner (5)

20 Charles —,

American modernist composer born in 1874 whose works include A Symphony: New England Holidays (4)

Crossword ACROSS

6 Freedom from outside control (12) 8 Contort the face (7)

9 Slight colouring (5)

10 Leave out (4)

12 Fails to hit (6) 14 Covered cart (5)

15 Racket sport (6)

16 Second

Greek letter (4) 19 Low-lying wet land (5) 21 Instance (7)

22 Needs (12)

DOWN

1 Basic arithmetic (8) 2 Greatly dismay or horrify (5)

3 Directly below (5) 4 Sure (7)

5 Look over quickly (4) 6 With no risk of being late (2,4,4) 7 Daily publications (10) 11 Used to be (3)

12 Cut grass (3) 13 Comprehensive, wide-ranging (8)

14 Not having (7)

17 Ship or boat carrying passengers (5)

18 Molten rock (5) 20 American ostrich (4)