QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 and 11 Channel 4 game show hosted by Richard Ayoade from 2017 (3,7,4) 8 Common bird of ponds and lakes with a black plumage and red bill (7) 9 Hardwood of tropical Africa used as a substitute for teak (5) 10 That part of the lower back also called the lumbus (4) 11 See 1 Across 12 2012 film comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis (3) 14 2001 film drama starring Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer (1,2,3) 15 Male fertilizing organ of a flower (6) 18 Stephen —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The Crying Game (3) 20 See 5 Down 21 Unit of speed; one nautical mile per hour (4) 23 Art —, US jazz pianist born in 1909 known for his improvisation (5) 24 Henry David —, US author of 1849 essay Civil Disobedience (7) 25 Abnormal fear of heights (10)

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1 Soft silvery-white element; symbol Th (7) 2 Word representing the letter E in the NATO phonetic alphabet (4) 3 Boat rowed by three people in which the person in the middle uses two oars and the others one oar each (6) 4 Small dagger with a slender tapered blade (8) 5 and 20 Across 1998 Nick Hornby novel whose central character is Will Lightman (5,1,3) 6 Yellow fragrant liquid used as an inhalant to dilate the blood vessels (4,7) 7 Co-educational school established in 1934 near Elgin, Moray (11) 13 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert set in ancient Carthage (8) 16 Nelson —, president of South Africa from 1994-99 (7) 17 John —, WBC Light Heavyweight boxing champion from 1974-77 (6) 19 Member of a Mexican Indian people whose great empire was overthrown by Hernan Cortes in the 16th-century (5) 22 Ty —, Detroit Tigers baseball player and manager known as The Georgia Peach (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror