Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 Capital and chief

port of Guyana (10)

8 Thick-furred marsupial of the Americas with a hairless, prehensile tail (7)

9 Tree or shrub with thin peeling bark such as the Silver — or Yellow — (5)

10 Actor who played the title role in 1937 film drama Elephant Boy (4)

11 Jay —, US actor whose roles include Bob Sugar in 1996 comedy-drama film Jerry Maguire (4)

12 Fish with a long snake-like body and reduced fins (3)

14 and 19 Down

Author of the poetry volumes Harold’s Leap and Not Waving But Drowning (6,5)

15 In printing, another name for a double dagger, the sign indicating a footnote (6)

18 Roman goddess of abundance and fertility (3)

20 Fast-running, flightless bird of South America (4)

21 Goddess of youth and spring in Greek mythology (4)

23 Stomach lining of an ox or cow prepared for cooking (5) 24 Bartolome —, Spanish painter whose works include 1656’s Vision of St Anthony (7)

25 BBC TV series set in Bristol starring Trevor Eve in the title role that ran from 1979-80 (10)

DOWN

1 and 4 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood (7,2,6)

2 City in Russia at the confluence of the Om and Irtysh Rivers (4)

3 Cooked hindquarters

of a side of bacon (6)

4 See 1 Down

5 S K —, Australia Test cricketer who took 8-71 against England at Brisbane in

1994 (5)

6 The —, 1944 novel by

Joyce Cary (6,5)

7 Solid found in most body tissues that is synthesized by the liver (11)

13 and 17

17th-century French mathematician regarded as the founder of modern number theory (6,2,6)

16 1998 novel by David

Almond (7)

17 See 13 Down 19 See 14 Across 22

Hariyanto —, 1995 world men’s singles badminton champion (4)