Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
3 and 14 1998 story collection by Maeve Binchy (3,6,7) 8 Biblical character murdered by his brother Cain (4) 9 Perennial plant with pale yellow flowers (8) 10 Widely cultivated plant with a large yellow or white edible root (6)
13 Jiri —, 2001 and 2003 Swiss Open singles tennis tournament winner (5) 14 See 3 Across 15 David —, cartoonist who created the character Colonel Blimp (3) 16 and 24
1992 novel by Stephen King (7,9)
17 See 7 Down 21 Sebastian —, 2010-13 F1 World Drivers’ Championship winner (6) 22 Amanda —, actress who played Grace Van Pelt in US television crime series The Mentalist from 2008-15 (8) 23 See 14 Down 24 See 16 Across
DOWN
1 Punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick (9)
2 Alex —, 1973 Wimbledon men’s singles tennis championship runner-up (9)
4 2013 no 1 single by Pharrell Williams (5) 5 The —, 1915 novel by D H Lawrence (7) 6 French department; capital Albi (4) 7 and 17 Across
SMERSH Colonel in 1957 Ian Fleming novel From Russia with Love portrayed on screen by Lotte Lenya in 1963 (4,5) 11 2010 sci-fi film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (9) 12 Late 19th-century art movement whose exponents included Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau (9) 14 and 23 Across
1886 novel by Louisa M Alcott (3,4) 15 Kingdom in southern Africa; capital Maseru (7) 18 — water, alkaline mineral water from a French spa on the south shore of Lake Geneva (5) 19 Aromatic Eurasian plant whose leaves are used for flavouring in pickles (4) 20 Language also called Siamese (4)
Crossword ACROSS
3 Coshes (9)
8 Make a reservation (4) 9 Method of scoring in rugby (4,4) 10 Material used as an interior covering (6) 13 Flavour (5) 14 Equilibrium (7) 15 Purchase (3) 16 Burdensome (7) 17 Sugary (5)
21 Great fear (6) 22 Plimsoll (8) 23 Rotate (4) 24 Taking prisoner (9)
DOWN
1 Annulment (9) 2 Child (9) 4 Shelf-like projection from a cliff (5) 5 Opening into a building or room (7) 6 Therefore (4) 7 Tidy (4)
11 Butt in (9) 12 Peach variety (9) 14 Large road vehicle (3) 15 Meat retailer (7) 18 Earthenware beer mug (5) 19 Code word for the letter P (4) 20 Prepare for publishing (4)