Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 and 13 Down
2007 film comedy starring Matthew Macfadyen and Rupert
Graves (5,2,1,7) 7 and 9 2000 comedy-drama film starring Jamie Bell in the title role (5,6) 8 Sour-tasting liquid of impure dilute acetic acid used as a condiment (7) 9 See 7 Across 11 Fine-grained metamorphic rock split into flat plates for roofing material (5) 13 Jorge —, 2011-12 WBO Bantamweight champion (4) 14 and 22 1984 novel by Desmond Bagley (5,2,5)
15 See 4 Down 16 Former kingdom and French protectorate of east Indochina now part of Vietnam (5) 17 Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War (6) 21 Assyrian god mentioned in
2 Kings and Isaiah in the Bible (7)
22 See 14 Across 23 Ben —, US actor who played the title role in films Zoolander and Greenberg (7)
DOWN
2 Argentina midfield footballer signed by Tottenham Hotspur from Roma in 2013 (4,6) 3 and 19 1976 novel by Alan Garner (3,5,4) 4 and 15 Across
1859 novel by George Eliot featuring character Hetty Sorrel (4,4)
5 and 20 2011 horror film starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and MyAnna Buring (4,4)
6 Area of low marshy ground in South Africa such as the Umgeni — (4) 9 Wire coloured green and yellow in a British power plug (5) 10 Australian actor-manager who wrote, produced and directed musical comedy Chu Chin Chow (5,5)
12 Noah —, 2000 Olympic 1,500m gold medallist (5)
13 See 1 Across 18 Douglas —, director of film dramas Magnificent Obsession and Imitation of Life (4) 19 See 3 Down 20 See 5 Down
Crossword ACROSS
1 Unprofessional (7) 7 Turning tool (5) 8 Normally, ordinarily (2,1,4) 9 Waterproof jacket (6) 11 Rustic (5) 13 Dark-red or purple-brown colour (4) 14 Unusually large (7) 15 Daybreak (4) 16 Female fox (5) 17 Comment (6) 21 Liked by many (7) 22 Person volunteering blood (5) 23 Football official (7)
DOWN
2 Pretence or disguise (10) 3 Water tortoise (8) 4 Unsightly (4) 5 Mend with stitches (4) 6 Scorch (4) 9 In the thick of (5) 10 Speed up (10) 12 Smug smile (5) 13 Treatment of the feet (8) 18 Earth’s satellite (4) 19 Violent disturbance (4) 20 Golfer’s warning cry (4)