Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Quizword & Crossword

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

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QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS

1 Badminton shot played to the back of the opponent’s court (5) 7 Seaport and capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (8) 8 Steve —, 1980 Olympic 800m gold medallist (5) 10 Papua New Guinea and Melbourne Storm wing/ centre who played against England in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup quarter-finals (6,4) 12 Indoor version of baseball invented by George Hancock in 1887 (8) 14 Leguminous West Indian shrub; a source of indigo (4) 16 Muse of history in Greek mythology (4) 17 Capital of Chad (8) 20 Jack —, Labour MP for Copeland from 1983-2005; Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1992-94 (10) 23 Max —, German composer and organist who died in 1916 (5) 24 Christina —, 19th-century English poet whose works include Remember and The Lambs of Grasmere (8) 25 D J —, West Indies Test cricketer who took 6-55 against England at Old Trafford in 2004 (5)

DOWN

1 and 11 1926 novel by Dorothy L Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey (6,2,7) 2 Group whose debut album An Awesome Wave won the 2012 Mercury Prize (3-1) 3 A J —, US motor racing driver; 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans winner with Dan Gurney (4) 4 and 6 Ridge in NW Israel extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterran­ean (5,6) 5 Kurt —, detective creation of Henning Mankell in Faceless Killers and subsequent novels (9) 6 See 4 Down 9 Tony —, 1985-86 WBA Heavyweigh­t champion (5) 11 See 1 Down 13 City in Israel housing Ben Gurion Internatio­nal Airport (3) 15 Capital and chief port of Senegal (5) 16 Marcus Tullius —, Roman statesman and orator assassinat­ed in 43 BC (6) 18 Theodor W —, Frankfurt-born philosophe­r whose writings include Prisms and Negative Dialectics (6) 19 Capital of Gard, France, whose Roman remains include the Maison Carree (5) 21 City of the Philistine­s from which Goliath came (4) 22 Golda —, prime minister of Israel from 1969-74 (4)

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