Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword

ACROSS

1 — the Greek, 1946 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis (5)

7 2008 action film starring

Shia Labeouf and Michelle Monaghan (5,3)

8 Australian bird also called a Rose-breasted Cockatoo (5)

10 and 12 1964 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr (4,4,2,8)

14 Town in Flintshire, N Wales, on the

River Alyn (4)

16 Enamelled or lacquered metal ware popular in the 18th century (4)

17 Tobias —, author of the novels The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine

Pickle (8)

20 Asian republic whose capital is Dhaka (10)

23 See 24 Across 24 and 23

Weedy plant of the goosefoot family with arrow-shaped leaves and small green flowers (4,4,5) 25 and 4 Down

Swedish golfer,

2013 winner of

The Greenbrier Classic (5,5)

DOWN

1 Capital of Croatia (6)

2 Stage play by Bertolt Brecht first performed in 1923 (4)

3 William Howard —, president of the US from 1909-13 (4)

4 See 25 Across

5 1992 family film starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt (9)

6 Alice —, author of the novels The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones (6)

9 Ethan —, US actor; author of novels

Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State (5)

11 Ricky —, actor who played the title role in 2001 film comedy Mike Bassett: England Manager (9)

13 Twining plant cultivated

for its edible tuber (3) 15 The —, comic book character, alter ego

Jay Garrick, who first appeared in 1940 (5)

16 Island NE of Trinidad whose chief town is Scarborough (6)

18 Capital of Aube, N France, on the

River Seine (6)

19 Flatfish also called a

European flounder (5) 21 Jim —, US artist whose lithographs include 1973’s Big Red Wrench in a Landscape (4)

22 Lover of Leander in

Greek mythology (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror