Quizword & Crossword

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

QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS 1 One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint (5) 7 Fabric made of silk and wool or cotton and rayon used especially for coats (8) 8 Nikolai —, author of 1842 novel Dead Souls (5) 10 Large arboreal Australian kingfisher also called a laughing jackass (10) 12 The —, 1909 novel by L Frank Baum (4,2,2) 14 Sammy —, Chicago Cubs MLB player who hit 179 home runs in the three seasons between 1998-2000 (4) 16 Town in Highland, NE Scotland, due south of John O’Groats (4) 17 — Ocean, body of water bounded by the Americas, Africa and Europe (8) 20 Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (5,5) 23 King of Judaea from 37-4 BC (5) 24 1973 no 1 single by The Simon Park Orchestra (3,5) 25 2006 film drama starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish (5) DOWN 1 Richard —, German composer of operas Parsifal and Lohengrin (6) 2 Large Eurasian bird of the crow family (4) 3 Kirsty —, television presenter whose credits include Newsnight and The Late Show (4) 4 Rhys —, actor-comedian who played Murray Hewitt in US television series Flight of the Conchords (5)

5 and 18 Assassin of Jean-Paul Marat executed in 1793 (9,6) 6 River of South America formed at the confluence of the Paranaiba and Grande Rivers in Brazil (6) 9 Lorenzo —, Italian Renaissance artist whose works include Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with his Wife and Children (5) 11 Fictional girl detective who first appeared in 1930 novel The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (5,4) 13 Erect annual grass grown for its edible seed (3) 15 Third planet from the sun (5) 16 E D —, West Indies Test cricketer who hit 206 against England in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1954 (6) 18 See 5 Down 19 Deborah Kara —, actress who played Dahlia Gillespie in 2006 horror film Silent Hill (5) 21 Anthony —, prime minister from 1955-57 (4) 22 Queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology (4)