Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Beth —, uneven bars gold medallist at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (7) 7 Seaport in eastern
Dorset (5) 8 Emilio —, actor whose roles have included William H Bonney in 1988 action film Young Guns (7) 9 Author of 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club (3,3) 11 and 13 Sponge cake spread with jam and cream and shaped into a cylinder (5,4) 14 Small container filled with explosive thrown by hand (7) 15 Hand tool used for cutting and shaping wood (4) 16 Cricket team; winners of the County Championship in 1991 and 1992 (5) 17 Small constellation neighbouring Carina in the southern sky that represents a flying fish (6) 21 Portable tubular rocket-launcher used by infantrymen (7) 22 C A —, West Indies Test cricketer who took 5-54 against India in 1987 at both Delhi and Mumbai (5) 23 Fernando —, WBC Bantamweight champion from 2010-11 (7)
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2 1855 novel by Charles Kingsley (8,2) 3 Method of training a horse to perform manoeuvres in response to the body signals of its rider (8) 4 Plant related to the onion; a national emblem of Wales (4) 5 Ian —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Chariots of Fire (4) 6 In music, the sign that, when placed before a note, lowers it in pitch by a semitone (4) 9 Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis (5) 10 Nickname of Edinburgh; Old Smokey (4,6) 12 Edgar —, painter and sculptor whose works include 1877’s Dancers Practicing at the Barre (5) 13 Creator of fictional detective and gourmand Nero Wolfe (3,5) 18 Edward —, 19th-century English humorist noted for nonsense poems such as The Jumblies (4) 19 The —, Dmitri Shostakovich opera first performed in full in 1930 (4) 20 Naum —, Russian sculptor whose works include 1930’s Construction in a Niche (4) 15 Privy to (2,2) 16 Oyster’s gem (5) 17 Threefold (6) 21 Male spouse (7) 22 Shed these when crying (5) 23 One who shoes horses (7)
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2 Fast terrestrial bird (10) 3 Condition of sticking together (8) 4 Touch down (4) 5 Giving heat (4) 6 Hades (4) 9 Rub out (5) 10 Happening (10) 12 Fence of bushes (5) 13 Recall (8) 18 Paradise (4) 19 Nobleman (4) 20 Mountain lion (4)