QUICK & CROSSWORD

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

ACROSS

1 Island in the Caribbean; capital Kingston (7) 7 Thicker of the two bones of the leg between the knee and ankle (5) 8 William Shakespeare play subtitled The Moor of Venice (7) 9 First day of the liturgical year in Western Christianity, falling between November 27 and December 3 (6,6) 11 Actor who played

Private Sponge in BBC TV sitcom Dad’s Army (5,4) 13 Old Testament priest of the

5th century BC (4) 14 16 Town in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada, surrounded by the — National Park (5) 17 21 — House, 2017 mystery film starring Glenn Close and Gillian Anderson (7) 22 Capital and largest city of the US state of Idaho (5) 23 Elias —, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)

DOWN

2 Style of architecture of the 1890s characterised by stylised natural forms (3,7) 3 2018 crime film starring Evan Peters and Barry Keoghan (8,7) 4 Thomas —, Lancashire-born US painter whose works include 1833’s The Titan’s Goblet (4) 2018 novel by Ann Cleeves (4,4) 6 9 Charles —, weightlifter who conceived the Dynamic Tension system of muscle-building (5) 10 Town in Kent on the south bank of the River Thames west of Gravesend (10) 12 Town and coastal tourist resort in North Yorkshire (5) 13 Thin slice of meat, usually veal, coated with egg and breadcrumbs and fried (8) 18 Colourless gaseous element; symbol Ne (4) 19 Domed or vaulted recess at the east end of a church (4) 20 Elaborate accompanied song for solo voice in an opera (4)

ACROSS

1 Stifle (7) 7 Come about,

happen (5) 8 Fare receipts (7) 9 Man or boy (6) 11 Major religion (5) 13 Sympathy (4) 14 Move forward (7) Extremely (4) 16 Person chosen to sit on a panel in court (5) 17 Stinks (6) 21 Jogs the memory (7) 22 Trivial (5)

23 Book collection (7)

DOWN

2 Prevailing

cultural trend (10) 3 Subtract (4,4) 4 Consumes

food (4) Land measure (4) 6 Knitting

stitch (4) 9 Briefly lose

consciousness (5) 10 Not working

properly (3,2,5) 12 Gambling

odds (5) 13 Strange (8) 18 Paradise (4) 19 Far on in the

day or night (4) 20 Military cap

with a peak (4)