Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
QUIZWORD CLUES
1 First letter in the Hebrew alphabet (5) 4 See 2 Down
10 Hale —, 1990 US Open golf championship winner (5) 11 National parliament of Iceland (7) 12 Nocturnal hyena-like mammal that inhabits the plains of southern Africa (8) 13 1982 action film starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner (4) 15 Richard —, choreographer; Rambert Dance Company artistic director from 1986-92 (6) 17 City in Ticino, southern Switzerland, near the Italian border (6) 19 God of war in Greek mythology (4) 20 Abel —, prime minister of the unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979 (8) 23 Rudyard —, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) 24 Lean end of a neck of veal or mutton (5) 25 Kaye —, actress who played Lucy Archer in BBC TV drama series The Lakes (5) 26 and 16 Down
1992 film drama starring Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon (5,7)
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2 and 4 Across The —, 2012 novel by Paul Theroux (5,5) 3 — Studios, filmmaking complex west of central London that opened in 1936 (8) 5 Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (4) 6 Country in NE Africa; capital Asmara (7) 7 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope set in Prague (4,7)
8 and 18 1978 Commonwealth women’s 3,000m gold medallist for England (5,5) 9 Highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for crop destruction by the US during the Vietnam War (5,6) 14 Charles —, author of novels Ham on Rye and Post Office (8) 16 See 26 Across 18 See 8 Down 21 Wire in a British power plug coloured green and yellow (5) 22 Imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 (4)
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Rascal (5) 4 Sphere (5) 10 Side of a coin (5) 11 Cause to grow or mature (7) 12 Data-processing machine (8) 13 Unfasten (4) 15 Inflict harm in return for (6) 17 Straightforward (6) 19 Plenty (4) 20 One who tells jokes (8) 23 Nunnery (7) 24 On one’s toes, watchful (5) 25 Teachers at a school (5) 26 Manner (5)
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2 Abyss (5) 3 Estimate wrongly (8) 5 Molten rock from a volcano (4) 6 Equilibrium (7) 7 Filled to capacity (5-1-5) 8 Verges (5) 9 Chance (11) 14 Small boat for emergencies (4,4) 16 Having died out (7) 18 Bingo (5) 21 Perfect (5) 22 Unable to hear (4)