Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS 1 and 15 Down
Leader of the Liberal Party from 1976-88 (5,5)
7 Region of SW Italy;
capital Catanzaro (8)
8 Vebjorn —, 1996 Olympic men’s 800m gold medallist (5)
10 — Wars, series of conflicts between France and Great Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria (10)
12 Tom —, US golfer; 1973 winner of The Open Championship (8)
14 Tobias —, golfer; 2002 TNT Dutch Open tournament winner (4) 16 Island in Indonesia whose capital is Denpasar (4)
17 14th-century fortress in Paris destroyed in 1789 (8)
20 Shallow artificial lake in the Netherlands formed from the closure of the Zuiderzee by a dam in 1932 (10)
23 Rod —, winner of the 1969 Wimbledon singles tennis championship (5)
24 1991 novel by Ben
Elton (8)
25 — Spruce, evergreen tree named after an Alaskan community (5)
DOWN
1 Clarence —, lawyer who defended Leopold and Loeb in a 1924 Chicago murder trial (6) 2 Asian republic whose
capital is Tehran (4)
3 Edouard —, French viola player; composer of opera Le roi d’Ys (4)
4 Samuel —, 19th-century English explorer who named Lake Albert in Africa (5)
5 Kate —, 2006 winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for novel The Secret River (9)
6 Outmoded word for an Indian or SE Asian sailor (6)
9 Name of the first dog
in space (5)
11 J N —, Australia Test cricketer who took 5-56 against India at Nagpur in 2004 (9)
13 Hardy annual climbing plant whose pods bear round edible seeds (3) 15 See 1 Across 16 Johnny —, actor who played Mike Baldwin in ITV soap Coronation Street (6)
18 Legendary nymph believed to have advised king of Rome Numa Pompilius on religious matters (6)
19 George —, art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Rum, Bum and Concertina and Owning Up (5)
21 Spice made from the dried aril round a nutmeg seed (4)
22 Strong aniseedflavoured spirit distilled in Turkey and the Balkans (4)
Crossword ACROSS
1 Cuban dance (5)
7 Woodland plant (8) 8 Perspire (5)
10 Without cause, unjustified (10)
12 Contorts the face (8)
14 Not closed (4)
16 Renown (4)
17 Person ideally suited to another (8) 20 Something newly introduced (10)
23 Helicopter blade (5) 24 Sliver (8)
25 Tennis score of 40 all (5)
DOWN
1 Rebellion (6)
2 Boast (4)
3 Price (4)
4 Once more (5)
5 As it were (2,2,5)
6 Motive (6)
9 Tyre surface (5)
11 Take apart (9)
13 One’s image of oneself (3)
15 Room’s lower surface (5) 16 Light and thin (6)
18 Card game (6)
19 Gambling odds (5)
21 Long difficult journey (4)
22 Short letter (4)