Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 Fourth letter in the

Greek alphabet (5)

7 Symmetrical curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side (8)

8 Georges —, French composer of 1925 ballet Les Matelots (5)

10 2003 Grand Nationalwinning horse (6,4)

12 Medical disorder caused by inadequate production or use of insulin (8)

14 and 25 Yellow corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid used to dissolve metals (4,5)

16 Capital of Moselle

department, France (4)

17 Eurasian plant also called goosegrass with small white flowers and prickly fruits (8)

20 Fortune-telling by using

playing cards (10)

23 Marland —, Sale Sharks and England rugby union wing (5)

24 Administrative capital

of South Africa (8)

25 See 14 Across

DOWN

1 R —, India Test cricketer who hit 270 against Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 2004 (6)

2 Former county town of Meath, Republic of Ireland (4) 3 Mike —, rugby union utility back whose 1994 England Test debut was against Wales (4)

4 Port on the Gulf of Bothnia; provisional capital of Finland in 1918 (5)

5 B J T —, England Test cricketer credited with inventing the googly (9)

6 Jean-paul Sartre novel first published in 1938 (6)

9 Leonard —, late poet and songwriter whose novels include The Favourite Game (5)

11 Sweet white wine made in the southern Bordeaux region of France (9)

13 Obsolete English unit of measurement equivalent to 45 inches that was used in tailoring (3)

15 Gordon —, retired Ireland and Leinster centre who represented the

British & Irish Lions once in 2005 (5)

16 City in N Brazil on the Amazon River; capital of Amapa state (6)

18 National airline of Belgium that went bankrupt in 2001 (6)

19 Standard unit of currency of Costa

Rica (5)

21 Genus of deer that

includes the chital (4)

22 US university in New

Haven, Connecticut (4)