Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword
ACROSS 1 See 8 Down 4 South American republic; capital Santiago (5) 10 Kenneth —,
1972 joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (5) 11 Art technique in which paint is applied thickly so that brush marks are evident (7) 12 Colin —, 1983-92 Conservative MP for Lewisham East; 1987-90 Minister for Sport (8)
13 1975 film thriller starring
Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw (4) 15 Standard monetary unit of Tonga (6) 17 Sebastian —, 2010-13 F1
World Drivers’ Championship winner (6)
19 2006 fantasy novel by Sherwood Smith (4) 20 Small citrus tree whose edible fruit resembles the tangerine (8) 23 Immature fruit of the cucumber used for pickling (7) 24 Any of the 12 broad-faced grinding teeth in humans (5) 25 City in Germany; leading administrative centre of the Ruhr (5)
26 and 6 Down Opera by Giacomo Puccini first performed in 1893 based on a novel by the Abbe Prevost (5,7)
DOWN
2 and 16 1935 opera by George Gershwin (5,3,4) 3 Jerry —, president of Ghana from 1993-2001 (8) 5 Bob —, London-born US film and stage comedian who died in 2003 aged 100 (4) 6 See 26 Across
7 Resort city in the Coachella Valley, California, US (4,7)
8 and 1 Across The —, 1906 story collection by Neil Munro featuring mariner Para Handy (5,5) 9 2002 novel by Joanne Harris (11) 14 1741 opera by George Frideric Handel (8)
16 See 2 Down 18 Fred —, music-hall impresario born Frederick John Westcott in Exeter, Devon, in 1866 (5)
21 1963 Derby winner ridden by Yves Saint-Martin (5) 22 Largest island of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland (4)
Crossword
ACROSS 1 Auctioneer’s hammer (5)
4 Types, kinds (5) 10 Astonish (5) 11 Medium (7) 12 Sample (8) 13 Appear (4) 15 Tangled into a thick mass (6)
17 Long tapering flag (6) 19 Be ahead in a race (4) 20 Wedge-shaped tenon (8) 23 Function (7)
24 Any object (5) 25 Men’s public lavatory (5) 26 Come about (5) DOWN 2 Quickly (5) 3 Cosmetic item (8) 5 Cooker (4)
6 Part exchange for something new (5-2) 7 Spongy sweet (11) 8 Intense beam of light (5) 9 Specialised words relating to a subject (11) 14 Soldier who runs away (8) 16 Acrobat’s bar (7) 18 Twelve (5) 21 Assumed name (5) 22 Desire (4)