Quizword & Crossword

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

1 2002 comedy-drama film starring Nicolas Cage in two roles (10) 8 Republic in SE Europe; capital Kiev (7) 9 Subdivision of the geologic time scale longer than an age and shorter than a period (5) 10 Woodwind instrument whose mouthpiece has a double reed (4) 11 Lake —, largest natural lake in Wales (4) 12 Port in SW Scotland housing the Wallace Tower (3) 14 Clement —, prime minister from 1945-51 (6) 15 Former situation on a golf green in which an opponent’s ball blocked the line between the hole and the ball about to be played (6) 18 Ernie —, South African golfer who won The Open Championship in 2002 and 2012 (3) 20 Chief coal-mining and industrial region of Germany (4) 21 Edith —, French singer known as the Little Sparrow (4) 23 Antonio —, Spanish architect famous for his designs for the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona (5) 24 Rugby union prop; 1976 Ireland Test debutant against France (4,3) 25 See 3 Down

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1 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey (7) 2 Kingsley —, author of 1955 novel That Uncertain Feeling (4)

3 and 4, 25 Across 1961 sci-fi film starring Janet Munro and Leo McKern (3,3,3,5,6,4) 4 See 3 Down

5 Tony —, actor who played McLaren in BBC TV sitcom Porridge (5) 6 1856 poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning featuring the character Marian Erle (6,5) 7 2006 novel by Bernard Cornwell (7,4) 13 The —, 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (8) 16 Portuguese gold coin current in early 18th-century England worth about 27 shillings (7) 17 2009 sports drama film starring Ellen Page and Marcia Gay Harden (4,2) 19 German Junkers Ju-87 dive bomber first used in combat in the Spanish Civil War (5) 22 Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror