QUIZWORD CLUES

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Bellows-mender in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5) R G —, New Zealand cricketer who hit 103 in the 6th ODI against South Africa at Cape Town in 2000 (5) Three-dimensional shape in geometry resembling a ring doughnut (5) Large basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano (7) Collection of organisms inhabiting the surface layer of a sea or lake (8) James —, Scottish engineer and inventor who improved the steam engine (4) and 17 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for The Barefoot Contessa (6,6) 17 See 15 Across 19 See 5 Down 20 Biblical son of Asahel (8) 23 Ray —, winner of the 1970 World Snooker Championship (7) 24 and 25 1921 Booth Tarkington novel awarded the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (5,5) 25 See 24 Across 26 Lion in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C S Lewis (5) 1

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Federico Garcia —, Spanish poet who authored 1934 stage play Yerma (5) 3 Capital of Uzbekistan (8) 5 and 19 Across 2009 novel by Hilary Mantel (4,4)

2 Gwen —, singer-actress who portrayed Jean Harlow in 2004 biopic The Aviator (7) James Joyce novel published posthumously in 1944 (7,4) 1938 Evelyn Waugh novel featuring the character Lord Copper (5) Actor who starred as Jed Bartlet in US television drama series The West Wing (6,5) Harold —, 1924 Olympic 100m gold medallist (8) Common duck, the male of which has a dark green head and reddish-brown breast (7) Molly —, author of 1981 Booker Prize-nominated novel Good Behaviour (5) Tourist island of the Balearics in the Mediterranean (5) 22 Mild yellow

Dutch cheese (4) 7 8 9 14 16 18