QUIZWORD CLUES

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1 Martin —, actor who played Ned Nederlander in 1986 film comedy Three Amigos! (5) 4 Isle of —, island in the English Channel whose administrative centre is Newport (5) 10 Sky god of Egyptian mythology represented as a falcon-headed man (5) 11 Marcel —, painter and sculptor whose works include 1912’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 (7) 12 Michelle —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Love Field (8) 13 Hindu goddess of destruction (4) 15 Root vegetable of the cabbage family eaten raw in salads (6) 17 Species of clover-like fern native to Australia also known as ngardu from which bush bread is made (6) 19 See 6 Down 20 Lower jawbone in vertebrates (8) 23 Port in Honshu, Japan, on the Shinano and Agano rivers (7) 24 Jimmy —, member of the Crazy Gang whose comedy partner was Teddy Knox (5) 25 Tree whose wood is used for bridges as it resists underwater rot (5) 26 Louis —, first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (5)

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2 Kenneth —, broadcaster who co-wrote and appeared in BBC Radio comedy show Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (5) 3 Food fish of the southeast Atlantic and western Indian Oceans (8) 5 Unit of length, one twelfth of a foot (4) 6 and 19 Across 1975 Booker Prize-winning novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (4,3,4) 7 and 22 1947 Alfred Hitchcock drama film starring Gregory Peck and Ann Todd (3,8,4) 8 Larry —, US virtuoso mouth organ player who died in 2001 (5) 9 and 21 2008 novel by Jeffrey Archer (1,8,2,5) 14 Spanish courtship dance accompanied by castanets or tambourine (8) 16 Dutch artistic movement founded in Amsterdam in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg (2,5) 18 Capital and chief port of Senegal (5) 21 See 9 Down 22 See 7 Down Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror