Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

Leader, with brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain (7)

See 8 Across and 7 1985 comedy-drama film starring

Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner (7,5) City in Lombardy, Italy, northeast of Parma surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes (6) Annual or biennial grass used to make flour (5)

Light slender flexible sword tipped by a button (4)

British royal house that reigned from 1714-1901 (7)

City in east-central Texas, US, on the Brazos River (4)

See 4 Down and 21 Town in Leicestershire associated with pork pie manufacture (6,7)

21 See 17 Across 22 Gracie —, comedienne married to comedian George Burns who died in 1964 (5)

23 and 12 Down

1939 novel by

Zane Grey (7,5) 1 7 8 9 11 13 14 15

16 17

DOWN

1974 disaster film starring

Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner (10) 3 Spanish cold soup made from tomatoes and peppers (8)

and 16 Across

1989 novel by

Carl Hiaasen (4,5) Carlos —, 1998

French Open singles tennis championship winner (4)

6 See 19 Down 2 4 5

Stella —, US actress who portrayed Sandy West in 2010 biopic The Runaways (5) 2001 novel by

Walter Kirn (2,2,3,3)

See 23 Across

Old World mainly nocturnal mammal also known as a flying fox (5,3) Singer and actress who played

Barbara Pegg in

1967 film drama

To Sir, with Love (4)

and 6 The —, Stephen Crane short story first published in

1897 about four shipwrecked men (4,4)

20 Former gold rush town in Alaska; finishing point of the Iditarod trail sled dog race (4) 9 10

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