Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword
ACROSS
6 2001 film thriller starring Naomi Watts and Laura
Harring (10,2)
8 1953 film drama starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten (7)
9 Premiership rugby union club based in Coventry (5)
10 1965 Joe Orton stage play that ran on Broadway in 1968 (4) 12 River rising in SW Poland that joins the Oder near Brzeg (6) 14 Genus of insects including the blackfly (5)
15 City in W Russia on
the Oka River (6)
16 L Frank —, author of 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (4)
19 Giuseppe —, composer of 1851 opera Rigoletto (5) 21 Rory —, 2012 and
2014 winner of the US PGA Championship (7)
22 Australian actor who played Dr Robert Chase in US television series House (5,7)
DOWN
1 Village and fishing port in Highland, Scotland on Loch Broom (8) 2 Alan —, American musicologist whose books include Mister Jelly Roll (5)
3 Edward —, composer of 1900 oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (5) 4 Tony —, snooker player who won the 1983 Professional Players Tournament (7)
5 and 14 1965 novel
by Dick Francis (4,7)
6 Hana —, 1987
Australian Open singles tennis champion (10)
7 Micheline —, 1948 Olympic shot and discus gold medallist (10)
11 Resort town in Belgium with medicinal mineral springs (3)
12 Game for two in which players take turns to remove matches from several rows (3)
13 Old Testament character thrown into the fiery furnace with Meshach and Abednego (8)
14
17 D L —, England Test cricketer who hit 262 not out against West Indies at Kingston in 1974 (5)
18 A F —, England cricketer who took 5-57 against West Indies at Birmingham in 2004 (5)
20 Basic monetary unit of
Cambodia (4)
See 5 Down
Crossword ACROSS
DOWN
6 Astonishing (4-8) 1 Idleness (8)
8 Discourteous, 2 On top of or higher
impolite (7) than (5)
9 Cave-dwelling 3 Nimble (5)
creature (5) 4 Butter up (7)
10 Flag down (taxi) (4) 5 Data (4)
12 Married Spanish 6 Harmonica (5,5)
woman (6) 7 Badly thought
14 Provide food (5) out (3-7)
15 Kidnapper’s 11 Sweet potato (3)
payment (6) 12 Stitch (3)
16 Diesel oil (4) 13 Abroad (8)
19 Blacksmith’s 14 Crash together
block (5) violently (7)
21 Takes into 17 Greek letter (5)
custody (7) 18 Great fear (5)
22 Oscar (7,5) 20 Gripping tool (4)
Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror