Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Pakistan Test cricketer who took 7-119 against New Zealand at Wellington in 1994 (5,5) 8 Bernard —, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from
1967-79 (7)
9 Evans —, 2004 London Marathon and Chicago Marathon men’s race winner (5)
10 Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named (4)
11 Former Hindu custom, also called suttee, of a widow throwing herself on her husband’s funeral pyre (4)
12 Anais —, author of 1954 short novel A Spy in the House of Love (3)
14 US port in New Jersey; largest city in the state (6)
15 Marine crustacean with a slender flattened body and large tail (6) 18 Game for two in which players take turns to remove matches from several rows (3)
20 Port in Japan; largest city on Okinawa
Island (4)
21 Ancient Egyptian female fertility goddess (4)
23 Board game in which players try to transfer pieces from their own to their opponents’ bases (5)
24 Tropical climbing orchid whose long fleshy pods contain beans used to flavour food (7) 25 German car manufacturer associated with the Beetle model (10)
DOWN
1 Ben —, actor whose roles have included
Q in 2012 action film Skyfall (7)
2 Front part of the
lower leg (4)
3 Michael —, actor who played David St
Hubbins in 1984 film comedy This Is Spinal Tap (6)
4 Hanif —, author of the novels The Black Album and Intimacy (8)
5 John —, English naval officer and prime minister of Naples who died in 1811 (5)
6 and 13 1998 film drama starring Leonardo Dicaprio in the title role (3,3,2,3,4,4)
7 2004 novel by Terry Pratchett whose protagonist is Moist von Lipwig (5,6)
13 See 6 Down
16 Protein hormone secreted in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans (7)
17 2012 film drama starring Rachel Mcadams and
Channing Tatum (3,3) 19 Port in SW Sweden on the Sound opposite Copenhagen (5)
22 Joiner in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4)