Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 White crystalline sugar; a major energy source in metabolism (7)

7 and 12 Down

Actor who played Harry Pearce in BBC TV drama series Spooks (5,5)

8 Renate —, 1972 Olympic 100m and 200m gold medallist (7)

9 Tree of tropical India and the East Indies whose aerial roots grow down into the soil (6)

11 The —, 1978 horror film starring Alan Bates based on a short story by Robert Graves (5)

13 1978 film drama starring Sylvester Stallone and Rod Steiger (1,1,1,1)

14 Ernst —, German aircraft designer who died in 1958 (7)

15 Multihull sailing vessel of the South Pacific (4)

16 Medium-sized wading bird with a long, straight bill (5)

17 Songbird with a brown plumage and spotted breast (6)

21 Legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise from the ashes every 500 years (7)

22 and 23 Iran-born winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (5,7)

DOWN

2 Town in Hertfordshire founded in 1903 as the first garden city in England (10)

3 Spanish solo dance in triple time (8)

4 Tropical African tree whose oily seeds yield a fat used in soap manufacture (4)

5 Brightest star in the constellation Lyra (4)

6 Collective noun for a group of quail (4)

9 Robert O’Hara —, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north who died in 1861 (5)

10 Roman Catholic feast on August 15 celebrating the reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven (10)

12 See 7 Across

13 Powerful medieval principality in the SW part of the Low Countries; scene of many battles in World War I (8)

18 J E —, England Test cricketer who hit 200 not out against Sri Lanka at Lord’s in 2014 (4)

19 Front part of the lower leg (4)

20 Elisabeth —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Leaving Las Vegas (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Sunshade (7) 7 Dart (5)

8 Pacify (7)

9 Embark on a journey (3,3)

11 Maltreat (5)

13 Nucleus (4)

14 Day-to-day (7)

15 Very small (4)

16 Extreme (5)

17 Offensive (6)

21 Study of living organisms (7)

22 Pungent (5)

23 Feeling a need to drink (7)

DOWN

2 Physically strong and healthy (4-6)

3 Antecedents (8)

4 Chooses (4)

5 French cheese (4)

6 Extinct bird (4)

9 Glossy fabric (5)

10 Direct and outspoken (10)

12 Breathing organs (5)

13 Relating to cells (8)

18 One twelfth of a foot (4)

19 Single entity (4)

20 Desire (4)