QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS 1 and 11 Down 1991 novel by Ken Follett (5,4,5) 7 Industrial city in SW Zimbabwe (8) 8 Edvard —, Norwegian painter whose works include 1907’s The Sick Child (5) 10 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut (5,5) 12 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Lion (3,5) 14 Front part of the lower leg (4) 16 Ancient Phoenician port in southern Lebanon known for the production of a rare sort of purple dye (4) 17 Tropical Asian plant whose powdered stem is used as a condiment (8) 20 Ethiopian runner; 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships senior men’s race wnner (5,5) 23 Small insect that feeds by sucking the juices from plants (5) 24 George —, British jazz pianist and composer who died in 2011 (8) 25 Number represented by VII in Roman numerals (5) DOWN 1 Old Testament hunter famed for his prowess (6) 2 Scott —, US golfer who won the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1995 and 1997 (4) 3 Diminutive deer of South America with a reddish-brown spotted coat (4) 4 Creature in Greek mythology with the head and trunk of a woman and wings of a bird (5) 5 Character in Lewis Carroll book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland depicted at the Hatter’s mad tea-party with straw on his head (5,4) 6 and 19 1879 novel by Anthony Trollope (6,5) 9 Paul —, comedian-actor who co-wrote and played the title role in 1986 adventure film Crocodile Dundee (5) 11 See 1 Across 13 Large Australian flightless bird (3) 15 24th letter in the Greek alphabet (5) 16 Market town in North Yorkshire that houses a horse racecourse (6) 18 James —, actor and co-writer of BBC TV comedy series Gavin & Stacey (6) 19 See 6 Down 21 Active volcano in Sicily (4) 22 Domed or vaulted recess at the east end of a church (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror