Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword
ACROSS
1 Actor who starred as Arthur Daley in longrunning ITV series Minder (6,4)
8 Katherine —, actress who played Jessica Tate in US television sitcom Soap (7)
9 Edible marine gastropod mollusc also called a sea-ear (5)
10 Emilie —, 2007
Mexican Open singles tennis champion (4)
11 Gregory —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for To
Kill a Mockingbird (4) 12 See 4 Down 14 Collective noun for a
flock of geese (6)
15 Chess piece that moves in an L-shaped direction (6)
18 Card game similar to
whist (3)
20 Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family (4)
21 Bert —, actor who played Professor
Spats in 1968 comedy-drama film The Night They Raided Minsky’s (4)
23 Plant with greenishwhite flowers cultivated for its edible rounded bulb (5)
24 2006 fantasy film starring Lee Pace and Justine Waddell (3,4) 25 See 6 Down
DOWN
1 William —, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)
2 Woodwind instrument whose mouthpiece has a double reed (4)
3 1957 novel by Frederick Kohner subtitled The Little Girl with Big
Ideas (6)
4 and 12 Across
2000s BBC TV drama series created by Paul Abbott that featured Jack Deam, Tony Mooney and Joan Kempson (8,3)
5 Caribbean dance in which participants pass under a bar while leaning backwards (5)
6 and 25 Across
1968 film drama starring Kim Novak in the title role (3,6,2,5,5) 7 Small round choux pastry filled with cream and covered with chocolate sauce (11)
13 Republic in central Europe; capital Ljubljana (8)
16 Kenneth —, author of 1908 children’s book The Wind in the
Willows (7)
17 Member of a Central American Indian people whose capital was Tula (6)
19 — the Elder, Roman author who died witnessing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD (5)
22 Second letter of the
Greek alphabet (4)
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Mistake typical of
people (5,5)
8 Eastern tiered towers (7)
9 Line of people (5)
10 Lazy (4)
11 Otherwise (4)
12 Slope downwards (3)
14 Unquestionable truth (6)
15 Pattern on a zebra (6)
18 Arrest (3)
20 Stupid (4)
21 Magician’s stick (4)
23 County (5)
24 Warn (7)
25 Athletic contest of seven
events (10)
DOWN
1 Bargains over (7) 2 Created (4)
3 Snuggle (6)
4 Asks politely (8) 5 Vertical (2,3)
6 Bounce (11)
7 Brilliant in
appearance (11) 13 Tie for first
place (4,4)
16 European
language (7)
17 Remnant (6)
19 Snooker table
cloth (5)
22 Twofold (4)