Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 Port in NW Uruguay; second largest city in the country (5)

7 See 11 Down

8 Member of a Mexican Indian people whose great empire was overthrown by Cortes in the 16th century (5)

10 2011 film thriller starring Jake

Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan (6,4)

12 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film thriller starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter (1,7)

14 Roald —, author of

1964 children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (4)

16 African republic whose

capital is Ndjamena (4)

17 1929 opera by

Elisabeth Hauptmann, Bertolt Brecht and

Kurt Weill (5,3)

20 State capital of

California, US (10)

23 Mexican agave plant whose large fleshy leaves yield a fibre used for rope making (5)

24 Knight of the Round Table and lover of Queen Guinevere in Arthurian legend (8)

25 George —, art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Rum, Bum and Concertina and Owning Up (5)

DOWN

1 Large prawns usually eaten fried in breadcrumbs (6) 2 River that flows to the North Sea at Middlesbrough (4)

3 God of thunder in

Norse mythology (4)

4 Resort town in central Colorado, US, noted for its skiing (5)

5 1957 novel by Max

Frisch (4,5)

6 Rufus —, actor who played Autolycus in 2014 action film Hercules (6)

9 and 16 Village on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, housing a fortification famous for its defence by Lady Bankes against a parliamentary army during the English Civil War (5,6)

11 and 7 Across

1984 action film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner (9,3,5)

13 Type of West Indian pop music; a forerunner of reggae (3)

15 Pair of short cloth gaiters covering the instep and ankle (5)

16 See 9 Down

18 G R —, England Test cricketer who took

6-38 against New Zealand at

Christchurch in

1988 (6)

19 Douglas —, British fighter pilot who lost both his legs in a flying accident in 1931 (5)

21 Race of decadent people in the 1895

H G Wells novel

The Time Machine (4)

22 Department of France whose capital is Beauvais (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Soft sweet (5)

7 Take action on (4,4)

8 Hair colour (5)

10 Occasionally (3,3,4)

12 Relating to education and scholarship (8)

14 Solely (4)

16 Dog sound (4)

17 Sets free (8)

20 Reference book (10)

23 Provincial (5)

24 Sanctions (8)

25 Adult females (5)

DOWN

1 Leg bone (6)

2 Elegant dress (4)

3 Second Greek letter (4)

4 Fly without power (5)

5 Deceiving or fraudulent (9)

6 Ramshackle hut (6)

9 Group of nine (5)

11 Predatory fish (9)

13 Frozen water (3)

15 Oyster’s gem (5)

16 Spending plan (6)

18 Sulky, morose (6)

19 Jewelled headdress (5)

21 Require (4)

22 Stringed toy (2-2)