QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS 1 and 16 Down 1964 Agatha Christie novel featuring Miss Marple (1,9,7) 8 Bernard —, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967-79 (7) 9 Web-footed long-necked water bird such as the greylag (5) 10 Capital of Moselle department, France (4) 11 Ballet step in which a dancer springs from one leg and lands on the other (4) 12 Umberto —, author of novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (3) 14 Sea god in classical mythology; husband of Doris (6) 15 2015 biopic starring Bryan Cranston in the title role (6) 18 Cricket stroke made with the bat in an almost horizontal position (3) 20 One of the attendants of Cleopatra in William Shakespeare play Antony and Cleopatra (4) 21 Mountain in Greek mythology sandwiched between Olympus and Pelion by Otus and Ephialtes (4) 23 Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one (5) 24 Ancient city in Italy buried by an eruption of Vesuvius (7) 25 White wine grape associated with Burgundy, France (10) DOWN 1 The —, 2004 biopic starring Leonardo Dicaprio as Howard Hughes (7) 2 - Khan, 2004 Olympics Lightweight boxing silver medallist (4) 3 Town in West Yorkshire on the River Wharfe (6) 4 Black panther in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book (8) 5 Positive electrode in an electrolytic cell (5) 6 and 13 1986 BBC TV drama series starring Paul Mcgann as Percy Toplis (3,8,8) 7 Ancient region of SW Asia between the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris (11) 13 See 6 Down 16 See 1 Across 17 6th-century BC Greek lyric poetess of Lesbos (6) 19 Egyptian deity depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon (5) 22 Sultanate in SE Arabia; capital Muscat (4)