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Quizword & Crossword

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

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QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS

1 Maxine —, actress who portrayed Joan Le Mesurier in 2008 BBC TV drama Hancock & Joan (5) 7 1989 film thriller starring Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman (4,4) 8 River upon which Nottingham stands (5) 10 1932 Best Picture Oscar winner starring Greta Garbo as Grusinskay­a (5,5) 12 Reba —, singer-actress who played Dr Green in 2001 comedy-crime film One Night At McCool’s (8) 14 Herbaceous plant whose fibre is woven into linen fabrics (4) 16 River upon which Knaresboro­ugh, North Yorkshire, stands (4) 17 2008 action-drama film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber (8) 20 North Sea coastal resort in the East Riding of Yorkshire north of Spurn Head (10) 23 Fluid containing white blood cells that drains into the bloodstrea­m (5) 24 In painting, a small chubby naked boy representi­ng Cupid (8) 25 Bushy tail of a fox (5)

1 Herbert —, American librarian who originally developed the Library of Congress Classifica­tion system (6) 2 Ernest —, US Chief of Naval Operations from 1942-45 (4) 3 See 19 Down 4 US state; capital Boise (5) 5 The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 (5,4) 6 Genus of climbing shrubs that includes the sarsaparil­la and false chinaroot (6) 9 IJ L —, England Test cricketer who hit 226 against Bangladesh at Lord’s in 2010 (5) 11 2007 film thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoo­n (9) 13 Genus of evergreen shrubs including the common — whose bitter leaves are used in herbal medicine (3) 15 Brightest star in the constellat­ion Orion (5) 16 Andrea —, author of novels A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and A Sense of Guilt (6)

18 and 21 US equivalent of a quaver in music (6,4)

19 and 3 Actor who played Pete Beale in BBC TV soap EastEnders from 1985-93 (5,4) 21 See 18 Down 22 AJ —, English philosophe­r whose works include Language, Truth and Logic (4)

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