QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Ben —, golfer who won the 1948 US Open Championship (5) 7 and 2 Down

Manchester-based speedway team; National League champions from 1933-36 (5,3,4) 8 Simon —, former BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 presenter associated with the feature Our Tune (5) 10 The —, 1939 war film starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson also known as U-Boat 29 (3,2,5) 12 Eleventh sign of the zodiac; the Water Carrier (8) 14 Almost horizontal passage driven into a mine for access or drainage (4)

16 and 25 US computer software executive who cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen (4,5) 17 Large hard grains of wheat used for puddings and soups (8) 20 Mythological creature slayed and skinned by Heracles as the first of his twelve labours (6,4) 23 Former small coin of France worth three deniers (5) 24 Daniel —, Irish nationalist leader known as The Liberator who died in 1847 (8) 25 See 16 Across

DOWN

1 Bryan —, South Africa winger who scored four tries in the 59-7 2007 Rugby World Cup win over Samoa (6) 2 See 7 Across 3 Military cap with a circular top and horizontal peak (4) 4 — Theatre, building in Southwark, London, built in 1599 (5) 5 Author of 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina; 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (3,6) 6 1959 stage play by Jean Anouilh (6) 9 Muriel —, author of novels The Girls of Slender Means and The Finishing School (5) 11 Sheltered inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine, Shetland Islands, housing a petroleum terminal (6,3) 13 River of North Yorkshire that flows to the Swale to form the Ouse (3) 15 Nikolai —, author of 1842 novel Dead Souls (5) 16 Laurence —, author of 1914 poem For the Fallen (6) 18 Ancient town of Asia Minor famed for the story of Hero and Leander (6) 19 — Islands, group off the coast of Northumberland housing a bird sanctuary (5) 21 Perennial plant such as the Turk’s Cap — or Tiger — (4) 22 The —, one of three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus in 1492 (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror