QUIZWORD

ACROSS

1 ‘The ---’, first novel by Charlotte

Brontë (9)

8 Port in central Vietnam which was the former capital of the kingdom of Annam (3)

9 1834 novel by Frederick

Marryat (5,6)

11 Village in Italy which was site of an 1800 battle at which Napoleon defeated the Austrians (7)

12 and 11 Down 1989 Herbert Ross film based on a play by Robert Harling (5,9)

13 Johann Wolfgang von ---, German poet who authored the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (6)

15 Australian tree such as Eucalyptus camaldulensis having aromatic leaves (3,3)

17 Flower such as Iris florentina

that has a fragrant rhizome (5)

18 Number represented by the

letters XV in Roman numerals (7)

20 Gambling game played in casinos which is a variety of baccarat (6,2,3)

22 Playing card having one spot (3) 23 1982 play by Michael Frayn (6,3)

DOWN

2 Mark, golfer disqualified from The Open in 2003 following a scorecard mix-up (3)

3 US natural gas pipeline company which filed for bankruptcy in 2001 (5) 4 Former name of Ho Chi Minh City

in Vietnam (6)

5 In fencing, a counterattack made immediately after a successful parry (7)

6 and 7 1960 Basil Dearden film starring Jack Hawkins and Nigel Patrick (3,6,2,9)

7 See 6.

10 ‘The --- ---’, sculpture by Antonio Canova commissioned by the Duke of Bedford for Woburn Abbey in England (5,6)

11 See 12 Across.

14 Saddam, President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 (7)

16 Florence art gallery damaged by

flooding in 1966 (6)

19 Cornelius, Minister of Magic in JK Rowling’s novel Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (5)

21 2003 Jon Favreau film comedy starring Will Ferrell and James Caan (3)

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