Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Pirate friend to Pompey in William Shakespeare play Antony and Cleopatra (10) 8 1938 Broadway stage play by Thornton Wilder (3,4) 9 Tourist island of the Balearics in the Mediterranean (5) 10 Southernmost of the Great Lakes of North America (4) 11 Large predatory feline mammal of Africa and India (4) 12 New Zealand bird of the honeyeater family with a bluish-green plumage and white tuft under the throat (3) 14 Cherie —, actress who played Guenevere in 1981 film drama Excalibur (6) 15 Justus —, 19th-century German chemist who founded agricultural chemistry (6) 18 Card game similar to whist (3) 20 — Sea, body of water east of the Caspian Sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan whose eastern basin is now called the Aralkum Desert (4) 21 Former Indian copper coin worth one sixteenth of a rupee (4) 23 Wading bird similar to the heron (5) 24 European republic; capital Zagreb (7) 25 1978, 1985 and 1989 Women’s PGA Championship winner (5,5)
DOWN
1 The —, novel by George du Maurier published posthumously in 1897 (7) 2 Colourless gaseous element; symbol Ne (4) 3 1997 action film starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack (3,3) 4 and 13 2009 adventure-comedy film starring Carter Jenkins and Austin Butler (6,2,3,5) 5 George —, author of novels The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede (5) 6 Battle of —, 1800 conflict of the French Revolutionary Wars that took place east of Munich and resulted in victory for France over Austria and its allies (11) 7 Australian golfer; 1981 US Open Championship winner (5,6) 13 See 4 Down 16 Wilfred —, WBC Light Middleweight champion from 1981-82 (7) 17 SI unit of pressure (6) 19 Lorenzo —, WBA Flyweight champion from 2003-07 (5) 22 US television sitcom that featured the Tate and Campbell families (4)
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Yorkshire pudding ingredient (5,5) 8 Diapers (7) 9 Hooded snake (5) 10 Unsightly (4) 11 Singing voice (4) 12 Dry one-seeded fruit (3) 14 Man who cuts hair (6) 15 Shelter or protection from danger (6) 18 Social insect (3) 20 Hearing organs (4) 21 Labyrinth (4) 23 Game with pawns and rooks (5) 24 Code word for the letter C (7) 25 Incessantly repeated (10)
DOWN
1 Liked by many (7) 2 Among (4) 3 Snuggle (6) 4 Game played with long-handled sticks (8) 5 Of a town (5) 6 Burden or impediment (11) 7 Crabby (3-8) 13 Lets go (8) 16 Printed sheet of paper (7) 17 Puts up, builds (6) 19 Topic (5) 22 Walking aid (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror