Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword
ACROSS
3 1947 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe named after a mysterious Scottish village (9) 8 — Handicap, flat race run at York in August last won by Muntahaa in 2018 (4) 9 See 14 Down 10 2000s BBC TV sitcom starring Ardal O’Hanlon as Thermoman aka George Sunday (2,4) 13 and 15 Personification of the government of the United States (5,3) 14 and 12 Down 2018 comedy-fantasy film starring Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson (5,2,6,3) 15 See 13 Across
16 British girl group whose 1993 debut album was Always & Forever (7) 17 2015 comedy-drama film starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel (5) 21 Unit of weight used for measuring the fineness of silk equal to one gram per 9,000 metres (6) 22 Cecil —, Poet Laureate from 1968-72 (3-5) 23 City in Nevada, US, noted as a gambling and divorce centre (4) 24 Kenya-born presenter whose credits include BBC TV series Springwatch and Autumnwatch (5,4)
DOWN
1 Chris —, Australian rider; 2007 MotoGP Grand Prix de France winner (9) 2 Greek dramatist whose works include Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus (9) 4 Cathedral city in North Yorkshire on the River Ure (5) 5 Firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah in the Bible (7) 6 Princess of Tyre in classical mythology who founded Carthage (4) 7 Department of France; capital Beauvais (4) 11 2018-19 Scottish Championship football club managed by
Ian McCall (3,6) 12 See 14 Across 14 and 9 Across
Narrator of 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac (3,8) 15 State of Malaysia on Borneo; capital Kuching (7)
18 J T —, author of novels Trail Boss and Waco’s Debt (5) 19 Hindu goddess of destruction (4) 20 Highest adult male voice (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror Crossword
ACROSS
3 Bold exploit (9) 8 Performs on stage (4)
9 Be like (8) 10 Person living in solitude (6) 13 Stair part (5) 14 Torment (7) 15 Flipper (3) 16 Nine-sided figure (7) 17 Tooth for grinding food (5) 21 Very nearly (6) 22 Draws back (8) 23 Terror (4) 24 Ready to wear (3-3-3)
DOWN
1 Assembly (9) 2 Now (2,7) 4 Grubby (5)
5 Fifth Greek letter (7) 6 Measure how long something takes (4) 7 Irritate (4) 11 Powerful vehicle for moving earth (9) 12 District (9) 14 Metallic element (3) 15 Plant greenery (7) 18 Adhesive (5) 19 Red meat (4) 20 Horse’s gait (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror