Quizword & Crossword

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

QUIZWORD ACROSS

1 Renate —, 1972 Olympic 100m and 200m gold medallist (7) 7 and 22 2007 novel by Katie Fforde (5,5) 8 and 9 Across 2007 novel by Tracy Chevalier (7,6) 9 See 8 Across 11 Henrik —, author of stage plays Hedda Gabler and The League of Youth (5) 13 Eurasian plant whose leaves are used for flavouring in pickles (4) 14 Form of verse in which lines are repeated at regular intervals (7) 15 Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta (4) 16 Town in Egypt on the River Nile noted for its temple built by Amenhotep III (5) 17 Nickname for New York City popularized by writer Washington Irving (6) 21 Gerald —, Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1987-92; Father of the House since 2015 (7) 22 See 7 Across 23 2011 novel by Stella Rimington (3,4)

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2 African musical instrument also called an mbira whose tuned strips vibrate when plucked (5,5) 3 Capital of Australia (8) 4 Active volcano in Sicily (4) 5 River that flows through Leicester (4) 6 Joiner in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4) 9 Elizabeth —, author of novels The Last September and Eva Trout (5) 10 Archipelago in the North Sea ceded by Britain to Germany in 1890 in exchange for Zanzibar (10) 12 Former kingdom and French protectorate of E Indochina now part of Vietnam (5) 13 Jean —, French painter whose works include 1961’s Bonne Mine (8) 18 Lake —, body of water in central Switzerland formed by a widening of the Aare River (4) 19 Jorge —, WBO Bantamweight champion from 2011-12 (4) 20 Hindu goddess of destruction (4)

CROSSWORD ACROSS

1 Military conflict or struggle (7) 7 Wild (5) 8 Fast-running bird (7) 9 Result from (4,2) 11 Little (5) 13 Cummerbund (4) 14 Fail to care for (7) 15 Organ of flight (4) 16 Following in time (5) 17 Demand (6) 21 Exhaustion (7) 22 Bedtime drink (5) 23 Gun part (7)

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2 Guess, expectation (10) 3 Widely distributed (3-5) 4 Food grain (4) 5 Brave man (4) 6 Bundle of hay (4) 9 Shout of applause (5) 10 At the planned time (2,8) 12 Representative in business (5) 13 Uncontrollably hot and stuffy (8) 18 Chimney dirt (4) 19 Halt (4) 20 Stand in a ringlet (4) Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror