QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 2006 film drama starring Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps (4,6) 8 BBC TV arts programme that ran from 1967-2002 (7) 9 Another name for mother-of-pearl (5) 10 Hawaiian feast of food, drink and entertainment (4) 11 Page to Don Adriano de Armado in William Shakespeare play Love’s Labour’s Lost (4) 12 Unit of length equal to 5 yards (3) 14 See 19 Down 15 Friedrich von —, composer of operas Alessandro Stradella and Martha (6) 18 Standard monetary unit of Romania (3) 20 2009 film drama starring Sam Rockwell and Dominique Mcelligott (4) 21 Carlo —, Italian author of 1945 memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli (4) 23 Gore —, US author of novels Julian and Creation (5) 24 Omid —, London-born Iranian actor-comedian who starred as Mahmud Nasir in 2010 comedy-drama film The Infidel (7) 25 The —, 1973 novel by Beryl Bainbridge (10)

DOWN

1 Official report of the proceedings of the British Parliament (7) 2 Nahuel —, rugby union prop; 2012 Argentina Test debutant against France (4) 3 King of Pylos referred to as the Gerenian horseman in Homer’s The Iliad (6) 4 Megan —, author of novels Wizard of the Pigeons and Harpy’s Flight (8) 5 Word representing the letter O in the NATO phonetic alphabet (5) 6 1983 stage play by Sam Shepard (4,3,4) 7 Common European songbird also called a titlark (6,5) 13 Disease of cattle and sheep also called milk sickness (8) 16 1991 novel by Stephen Fry (3,4) 17 Franc —, director of the films The Bride and Quadrophenia (6) 19 and 14 Across 2006 novel by Dick Francis (5,6) 22 Peter —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Murder, Inc (4)