Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Robert —, leader of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot (7) 7 City in Butte County, California, US housing Bidwell Park (5) 8 and 11 City in N Texas, US, south of Sheppard Air Force Base (7,5) 9 1987 novel by Stephen Leather (3,3) 11 See 8 Across 13 — The Elder, Roman politician and general, author of the first history of Rome (4) 14 European republic; capital Tallinn (7) 15 The —, 1911 novel by Arnold Bennett (4) 16 Group or set of 20 (5) 17 Soviet counterintelligence umbrella organisation fictionalised in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels (6) 21 Max —, 1920 Olympic men’s doubles tennis gold medallist with Oswald Turnbull (7) 22 Tall annual plant also called sesame (5) 23 Cut of beef that comes from the rear of the cow above the leg (7)
DOWN
2 1945 George Orwell novel subtitled A Fairy Story (6,4) 3 — II, King of England from 978-1013 and 1014-16 (8) 4 In computing, a group of bits processed as a single unit of data (4) 5 Wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus in Greek mythology (4) 6 Word representing the letter E in the NATO phonetic alphabet (4) 9 Pasta in the form of short tubes (5) 10 and 19 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev that popularised the term nihilism (7,3,4) 12 Kamil —, 2014 Olympic men’s individual normal hill and large hill ski jumping gold medallist (5) 13 — Mountains, range between the Black and Caspian Seas (8) 18 River in central Germany upon which Felsberg and Fritzlar stand (4) 19 See 10 Down 20 Hugo Rafael —, WBA Flyweight champion from 199899 (4)
Crossword ACROSS
1 Make ready (7) 7 Of the sun (5) 8 Ineffectual (7) 9 State without proof (6) 11 Cook in an oven (5) 13 Edge of a hat (4) 14 Difficult to catch (7) 15 Fibber (4) 16 Drink made from apples (5) 17 More suitable (6) 21 Wreckage found floating (7) 22 Cinder (5) 23 Beginning or origin (7)
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2 Reacting quickly or favourably (10) 3 One who conducts surveys (8) 4 Baby’s biscuit (4) 5 Puddle (4) 6 Romantic appointment (4) 9 Once more (5) 10 Fashionable celebrities (10) 12 Court panel member (5) 13 Disparage (8) 18 Domesticate (4) 19 Water jug (4) 20 Eye colour (4)