Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other. Quizword
ACROSS
3 and 9 2011 romcom starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher (2,7,8) 8 and 20 Down
2003-09 Channel 4 reality television series; 2004 BAFTA Award for Best Features programme winner (4,4) 9 See 3 Across
10 John —, Scottish mathematician known as the inventor of logarithms (6) 13 Port on the Gulf of Bothnia; provisional capital of Finland in 1918 (5) 14 Cotton cloth with a pattern of coloured squares on a white background (7) 15 Federal US bureau created in 1947 to conduct espionage activities (1,1,1)
16, 24 and 17 Play by Tom Stoppard first produced in 1968 (3,4,9,5) 17 See 16 Across 21 Ivor —, Scottish poet whose volumes include Private Habits and Fresh Carpet (6) 22 Clarence Threepwood, Lord —; P G Wodehouse character whose home is Blandings Castle (8) 23 Standard unit of currency of Peru replaced by the nuevo sol in 1991 (4) 24 See 16 Across
DOWN
1 2008 comedy-drama film starring Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll (5,4) 2 1988 short story collection by Clifford D Simak (3-6)
4 Style of abstract art associated with Kenneth Noland and Bridget Riley (2,3) 5 Queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (7) 6 Unit of length, a twelfth of a foot (4) 7 2009-15 US television comedy-drama series set in the fictitious William McKinley High School (4)
11 Hull KR and former Castleford Tigers, Workington Town and Huddersfield Giants hooker (5,4)
12 Title character of an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison (3,6) 14 Gilberto —, Brazilian guitarist and singer-songwriter; a 2005 Polar Music Prize winner (3) 15 Lightweight white linen or cotton cloth (7) 18 Town in Vicenza, Italy, east of Lake Garda, associated with the wool industry (5) 19 1935 action film starring James Cagney as ‘Brick’ Davis (1,3) 20 See 8 Across Crossword
ACROSS
3 Tease or tempt (9) 8 Slightly open (4) 9 Being or situated at an end (8)
10 Come into view (6) 13 Not sleeping (5) 14 Health and happiness (7) 15 Vehicle (3)
16 Foes (7) 17 Gluttony (5)
21 Rue (6)
22 Meeting for giving instructions (8) 23 Operator (4)
24 Goes to live elsewhere (9)
DOWN
1 Unconcealed, shameless (4-5) 2 School janitor (9) 4 Later than (5) 5 Small type of dog (7)
6 Den (4)
7 Swing to and fro (4) 11 Enter uninvited (4-5) 12 Initial advantage (4,5) 14 Used to be (3) 15 Orchestra member (7) 18 Quarrel (5) 19 Costing nothing (4) 20 This place (4)