Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 William —, WBA Middleweight champion from 1996-97 (5) 4 German submarine in World Wars I and II (1-4) 10 University in Birmingham founded in 1966 (5) 11 Hebrew prophet whose book of the Old Testament condemns the Edomites (7) 12 Broderick —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for All the King’s Men (8) 13 1964 action film starring Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins (4) 15 Stephen —, 1992-96 world snooker champion (6)

17 Unit of length equal to six feet used to measure depths of water (6) 19 Large desert in east Asia (4) 20 Seal ornamented with a sunken design rather than one in relief (8) 23 Greig —, rugby union scrum-half whose 2010 Scotland Test debut was against

New Zealand (7) 24 Young eel (5)

25 and 5 Down Neolithic village in the Orkney Islands, northeast Scotland (5,4) 26 Emma —, actress who played Skeeter Phelan in 2011 film The Help (5)

DOWN

2 Town that served as the port of ancient Rome (5) 3 W H —, Australia Test cricketer who hit 266 against England at the Oval in 1934 (8) 5 See 25 Across

6 In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction (7) 7 Artist whose works include 1929’s

The Woman and the Roses (4,7) 8 Martin —, former England rugby union captain whose 1997 Test debut was against Argentina (5) 9 Tropical Asian tree whose seeds yield an oil formerly used to treat leprosy (11) 14 Ring-necked —, small, brightly-coloured, long-tailed bird and the UK’s only naturalised parrot (8) 16 Former no 9 iron in golf that gave a great deal of lift (7) 18 — Mountains, range of peaks within the Australian Alps whose highest point is Mount Kosciusko (5) 21 Loch —, body of water in Perth and Kinross, Scotland housing a castle that was a place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (5)

22 In music, a legato performance of a melodic interval of two or more notes in a part (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Shaving implement (5) 4 Excessively fat (5) 10 Edition (5) 11 Instance (7) 12 Contestant finishing second (6-2)

13 Gasp (4) 15 Japanese religion (6) 17 Medium-sized monkey (6) 19 Leave out (4) 20 Royal daughter (8) 23 See or hear something unreal (7) 24 Star sign (5) 25 Untidy (5)

26 Greek letter (5)

DOWN

2 Crime of burning property (5) 3 Egg-based dish (8) 5 Boast (4)

6 Female voice (7) 7 Very small (11) 8 Longest thickest bone of the human skeleton (5) 9 Bookmaker’s premises (7,4) 14 Festive occasion (8) 16 Copy the actions of (7)

18 Clean feathers (5) 21 Inner planet (5) 22 Unmarried woman (4)