Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword

ACROSS

1 Young British Artist whose works include 1997 sculpture Pauline Bunny (5,5) 8 Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology; subject of a play by Euripides (7)

9 2012 novella by

Susan Hill subtitled A Ghost Story (5) 10 and 25 2013 novel by David Baldacci (4,3,7) 11 Tobias —, German golfer; 2002 TNT Dutch Open tournament winner (4)

12 See 4 Down

14 Hard silvery-white metal; symbol Os (6) 15 Jacques —, prime minister of France from 1986-88 (6) 18 Large bronze musical horn found in Danish peat bogs dating back to the Bronze Age (3) 20 Graeme —, 2006 World Snooker Championship winner (4)

21 Denis —, Belgium and Fulham FC defender (4)

23 New town in

Drenthe, northeast Netherlands, developed since World War II (5)

24 City in Virginia,

US, housing the man-made

Mill Mountain Star (7) 25 See 10 Across

DOWN

1 Long flat vertical bone in man also called the breastbone (7)

2 and 19 Actress who played Lily Macbeth in 1955 crime film

Joe Macbeth (4,5) 3 Goddess of the hearth and its fire in Greek mythology (6) 4 and 12 Across

1954 novel by

Iris Murdoch (5,3,3)

5 and 22 Co-founder, with brothers Richard and John, of Penguin Books in 1935 (5,4) 6 1970s ITV musical comedy-drama series starring

Julie Covington,

Rula Lenska and Charlotte

Cornwell (4,7)

7 2003 crime drama film starring Sean Penn and

Tim Robbins (6,5) 13 First part of the small intestine (8) 16 Small finch such as the Arctic — or lesser — (7)

17 Genus of trees from which gum resin benzoin is obtained (6) 19 See 2 Down 22 See 5 Down

Crossword

ACROSS 1 Not completely (2,2,1,5) 8 Subtracts (7)

9 Weird (5)

10 Leg part (4)

11 Cash register (4)

12 Flightless bird (3)

14 Lump of gold (6)

15 First batsman (6)

18 Consume food (3)

20 Wealthy (4)

21 Wander (4)

23 Hang in loose folds (5) 24 Level of command (7) 25 School janitors (10)

DOWN

1 Ruin or downfall (7) 2 Mexican snack (4) 3 Descend by rope (6)

4 Covers and extends beyond (8)

5 Tend to the sick (5) 6 Miscellaneous items or articles (4,3,4) 7 Specific need (11)

13 Make frozen again (8)

16 Ribbon-like strips of pasta (7)

17 Skin condition (6) 19 Jewelled headdress

22 Footwear item (4)