Quizword & Crossword QUIZWORD CLUES
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
ACROSS
1 Another name for perennial plant deadly nightshade (10) 8 and 19 Down 1997 comedy-drama film for which Peter Cattaneo was a Best Director Oscar nominee (3,4,5) 9 Gabriela —, 2000 Olympic 5,000m gold medallist (5) 10 Burrowing bivalve mollusc such as the quahog (4) 11 Industrial centre in Pas-de-Calais, France between Lille and Arras (4) 12 Brine-cured Canadian cheese named after a place in Quebec (3) 14 Zoe —, author of 2008 novel The Believers (6) 15 Piece of music composed for seven singers (6) 18 Industrial city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany on the River Danube (3) 20 Nik —, rock music journalist; author of novels Need and King Death (4) 21 Bluish-white metallic element; symbol Zn (4) 23 and 22 Down Comedy partner of Eric Morecambe who died in 1999 (5,4) 24 The —, 1962 novel by William Faulkner (7) 25 US singer-actor who played Manny Hood in 1999 comedy-drama film Cookie’s Fortune (4,6)
DOWN
1 Johnny —, WBA Bantamweight champion from 2002-04 (7) 2 Francois —, South Africa and Bath Rugby flanker (4) 3 Felix —, actor who portrayed the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1964 film drama Becket (6) 4 2009 film drama starring Idris Elba and Beyonce Knowles (8) 5 Small New Zealand tree with light wood and edible fruit (5) 6 Karlheinz —, German composer of 1968 vocal work Stimmung (11) 7 Literary and artistic movement of the late 18th- and 19th-centuries with which Felix Mendelssohn, Percy Shelley and Eugene Delacroix are associated (11) 13 2001 novel by Christopher Hart (6,2) 16 Type of US submarinelaunched ballistic missile that replaced Poseidon and Polaris from 1979 (7) 17 Town in Highland, NE Scotland housing a ruined 19th-century castle (6) 19 See 8 Across 22 See 23 Across
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Completely false story (4,2,4) 8 Gymnast’s costume (7) 9 Menacing behaviour (5) 10 Crease (4) 11 Warships of a nation (4) 12 Move to and fro against a surface (3) 14 Picnic basket (6) 15 Martial art (6) 18 Doze (3) 20 Public school (4) 21 Smile broadly (4) 23 Be alive (5) 24 Wash and iron (7) 25 Praiseworthy (10)
DOWN
1 Difficulty (7) 2 Applaud (4) 3 Severe or testing experience (6) 4 366 days (4,4) 5 Keen (5) 6 Tense ending to an episode of a serial (11) 7 Book-keeping system (6,5) 13 Empty, abandoned (8) 16 Curtail (7) 17 Ornate chalice (6) 19 Previous (5) 22 Affected by local anaesthetic (4)