Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 Morwenna —, comedienne, writer and partner of David Baddiel (5)

7 1994 story collection

by Will Self (4,4)

8 2002 sci-fi film starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix (5)

10 2009 debut novel by

M R Hall (3,7)

12 1987 film drama starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (8) 14 Berkshire town housing a public school for boys (4)

16 City of the Philistines from which Goliath came (4)

17 Hard form of aluminium oxide whose red variety is called ruby (8)

20 Welsh television presenter whose credits include Treasure Hunt and Wish You Were Here? (6,4)

23 Lowest deck in a vessel with four or more decks (5)

24 Doctor and philosopher in Voltaire’s 1759 novel Candide (8)

25 Aneurin —, Minister of

Health from 1945-51 (5)

DOWN

1 Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino (6) 2 Bruce —, chairman of

CND from 1987-90 (4) 3 and 21 Rugby union wing whose 1995 All Blacks debut was against Wales (4,4)

4 Nine-headed monster

in Greek mythology (5) 5 Town in St Petersburg, Russia; site of a 1921 rebellion on an island in the Gulf of Finland (9) 6 Tim —, leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2015-17 (6)

9 Dick —, actor who played LSD in

1968 film comedy The Producers (5)

11 Number represented by the letters XLIX in Roman numerals (5-4) 13 Umberto —, late author of novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (3)

15 George —, Manchesterborn actor who played Professor Moriarty in 1939 film drama The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (5)

16 Spirit distilled from the fermented remains of grapes after pressing (6)

18 Armistead —, author of 2000 novel The Night Listener (6)

19 Chief wolf in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (5)

21 See 3 Down 22 Southernmost of the Great Lakes of North America (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Light wood (5)

7 Renegade (8)

8 Following closely behind (2,3)

10 Cutlery item (10) 12 Decompression sickness (3,5)

14 Upper-class (4)

16 Sleep lightly (4)

17 Reprimands (8) 20 Selected with great care (4-6)

23 Wooden shoe (5)

24 Insinuation (8)

25 Freshwater mammal (5)

DOWN

1 Shining (6)

2 Opening for coins (4)

3 Knitting stitch (4)

4 Grind one’s teeth together (5)

5 Take legal action (2,2,5) 6 Stink (6)

9 Thin biscuit (5)

11 Storey between two others (9)

13 Female deer (3)

15 Fire remains (5)

16 Perennial plant (6)

18 Easy scoring chance (6) 19 Rapidity (5)

21 Cipher (4)

22 Stupid (4)