Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

6 and 15 1963 stage play by John Arden (3,9,6) 8 Mammal of

North America with alternating light and dark rings on its tail (7)

9 Sculpture, painting or drawing of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin Mary (5) 10 Part of the lower back also called the lumbus (4)

12 Marine mollusc with a conical shell that clings to rocks (6) 14 and 1 Down

1996 action film starring

Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman (5,8) 15 See 6 Across 16 Greenish-blue colour complementary to red (4)

19 The —, 2011 novel by Ruth Rendell (5) 21 Commune in Brittany, France, with a cross channel ferry link to Plymouth (7)

22 1855 novel by Herman Melville subtitled His Fifty Years of Exile (6,6)

DOWN

1 See 14 Across 2 See 7 Down 3 American mammal with a black and white coat and bushy tail (5)

4 Marine mammal with a beak-like snout (7) 5 Arthur —, 1975 Wimbledon singles tennis championship winner (4)

6 Old World bird with a brown plumage and speckled wings associated with song The Twelve Days of Christmas (6,4) 7 and 2 Samuel Beckett stage play premiered in 1953 featuring characters Vladimir and Pozzo (7,3,5)

11 1960 no 1 single by Anthony Newley (3) 12 Trygve —, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1946-52 (3)

13 City in southwest England housing HMNB Devonport (8) 14 London Underground line coloured red on the tube map (7) 17 1964-66 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner ridden by

Pat Taaffe (5)

18 City in Uusimaa, Finland, housing the Gallen-Kallela Museum (5)

20 1960 UEFA

European Nations’ Cup winners (inits)

Crossword ACROSS

6 Meteor (8,4)

8 Ugly terrifying being (7)

9 Mental picture (5) 10 Plunder (4)

12 Move about restlessly (6)

14 Don (clothing) (3,2) 15 Hardly ever (6) 16 Just (4)

19 Carpet nails (5) 21 Late or delayed (7) 22 Crucial (3-9)

DOWN

1 Heavy fall of rain (8) 2 Condition (5)

3 Irate (5)

4 Headache tablet (7) 5 Spanish sparkling wine (4)

6 Likeness (10) 7 Improvement (10) 11 Purchase with money (3) 12 Bushy-tailed mammal (3) 13 Custodian (8)

14 Synthetic material (7) 17 Remembrance flower (5)

18 Oyster’s gem (5)

20 Tranquil (4)