Ayrshire Post

Quizword & Crossword

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

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Quizword ACROSS

6 and 7 Down 2001 novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford (3,7,2,5,5) 8 Highest mountain in the world (7) 9 Kingdom in the southwest Pacific; capital Nuku’alofa (5) 10 Elisha —, American inventor of an elevator safety brake in 1852 (4) 12 Max —, 2010 and 2012 Superbike World Championsh­ip winner (6)

14 Ehud —, prime minister of Israel from 1999-2001 (5) 15 City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, housing the German Mining Museum (6)

16 Dewi —, rugby union wing; 1959 Wales Test debutant against England (4) 19 Town in west Belgium; scene of many battles in World War One (5) 21 Sepp —, president of FIFA from 1998-2016 (7)

22 1970 film drama starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld (1,4,3,4)

DOWN

1 Variety of celery with a large turnip-like root (8)

2 and 18 Preliminar­y report of British government proposals published to stimulate discussion (5,5)

3 Luciano —, motor racing driver; 2000 F1 debutant in the Austrian GP (5) 4 Any of a series of Soviet satellites such as — I, launched in 1957 (7) 5 Geoffrey —, Labour MP for Ashfield from 1992-2010; 1999-2005 Secretary of State for Defence (4) 6 1972 Western film starring John Wayne and Roscoe Lee Browne (3,7)

7 See 6 Across 11 Twining plant cultivated for its edible tuber (3) 12 Arnold —, English composer of symphonic poem Tintagel which premiered in 1921 (3) 13 Green and yellow woodland bird with a black head (5,3) 14 Darcey —,

British ballerina; former judge on BBC TV show Strictly Come Dancing (7) 17 Milton —, prime minister of Uganda from 1962-66 (5)

18 See 2 Down

20 Arthur —, 1958 Commonweal­th shot put gold medallist (4)

Crossword ACROSS

6 Very nervous and easily upset (6,6) 8 Another name for a remould (7) 9 Branch of Islam (5) 10 Curse (4) 12 Reimburse (6) 14 Hang in the air (5) 15 Do up (6) 16 Scented body powder (4) 19 Heavily loaded (5)

21 Make bigger (7) 22 Insurgency (12)

DOWN

1 Excites or troubles (8) 2 Lose blood from a wound (5) 3 Stage whisper (5) 4 Thrive (7)

5 Soon (4)

6 Scary movie (6,4) 7 Glass front part of a car (10)

11 Unit of weight (3) 12 Traffic light colour (3) 13 Feeling no fear or anxiety (8)

14 Evil (7) 17 Oyster’s gem (5) 18 Group of sheep (5) 20 Person from Copenhagen (4)

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