Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

Department of France; capital Auxerre (5) Vegetable also called a turnip cabbage (8)

Title character in

1826 J F Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans (5) and 12 2009 novel by Audrey Niffenegger (3,7,8)

See 10 Across

Second — War, 1899-1902 conflict in South Africa (4)

Dave —, US winner of the 1965 PGA Championship (4)

Plant with bell-shaped flowers known in Scotland as the bluebell (8)

20 English singer and songwriter who recorded 1987 no 1 debut album Whenever You Need Somebody (4,6)

23 and 11 Down 1975 studio album by

David Bowie (5,9)

24 — melon, round fruit with a greenish-white rind and sweet flesh (8) 25 and 1 Down Pakistan Test cricketer who took 5-52 against England at the

Oval in 1992 (5,6)

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1 See 25 Across 2 Yannick —, 1983 French Open singles tennis championship winner (4)

See 21 Down

Edward —, composer who wrote Salut d’amour as an engagement present for his fiancee in 1888 (5)

Ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to North America in 1620 (9)

Henry —, author of novels Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring (6) Monica —, 1992 US Open singles tennis championship winner (5)

See 23 Across

Chris —, rugby union centre; 1968 Scotland Test debutant against Australia (3)

Melvil —, US inventor of a system for the classification of library books (5)

Cillian —, actor who plays Thomas Shelby in BBC TV drama series Peaky Blinders (6) Bernhard —, golfer; 1985 and

1993 Masters Tournament winner (6) Collective name for the sepals of a flower (5) and 3 1985 film comedy starring Michael J Fox and James Hampton (4,4) 22 Hindu system of meditation and asceticism (4) 3 4

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Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror