QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

3 and 14 Across 1998 story collection by Maeve Binchy (3,6,7) 8 Biblical character murdered by his brother Cain (4) 9 Perennial plant with pale yellow flowers (8) 10 Widely cultivated plant with a large yellow or white edible root (6) 13 Jiri —, 2001 and 2003 Swiss Open singles tennis tournament winner (5) 14 See 3 Across 15 David —, cartoonist who created the character Colonel Blimp (3) 16 and 24 1992 novel by Stephen King (7,9) 17 See 7 Down 21 Sebastian —, 2010-13 F1 World Drivers’ Championship winner (6) 22 Amanda —, actress who played Grace Van Pelt in US television crime series The Mentalist from 2008-15 (8) 23 See 14 Down 24 See 16 Across

DOWN

1 Punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick (9) 2 Alex —, 1973 Wimbledon men’s singles tennis championship runner-up (9) 4 2013 no 1 single by Pharrell Williams (5) 5 The —, 1915 novel by D H Lawrence (7) 6 French department; capital Albi (4) 7 and 17 Across SMERSH Colonel in 1957 Ian Fleming novel From Russia with Love portrayed on screen by Lotte Lenya in 1963 (4,5) 11 2010 sci-fi film starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Joseph Gordon-levitt (9) 12 Late 19th-century art movement whose exponents included Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau (9) 14 and 23 Across 1886 novel by Louisa M Alcott (3,4) 15 Kingdom in southern Africa; capital Maseru (7) 18 — water, alkaline mineral water from a French spa on the south shore of Lake Geneva (5) 19 Aromatic Eurasian plant whose leaves are used for flavouring in pickles (4) 20 Language also called Siamese (4)