Irish Daily Star

Quizword & Crossword

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

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Quizword ACROSS

1 1959 romcom starring Rock Hudson and

Doris Day (6,4)

8 Region of Greece in the central Peloponnes­e; capital Tripoli (7) 9 — orange, large sweet fruit with a depression enclosing an underdevel­oped secondary growth (5) 10 Second son of Judah and Shua in the Old Testament (4)

11 White sheep or goat cheese popular in Greece (4)

12 Resort town in Belgium with medicinal mineral springs (3)

14 Carnivorou­s mammal, Eurasian in origin, with a long bushy tail (3,3) 15 Ancient city in

NW Syria (6)

18 Minor infringeme­nt in tennis requiring a point to be replayed (3)

20 Chris —, US golfer;

2014 Deutsche Bank Championsh­ip tournament winner (4) 21 In weaving, yarn woven across the width of a fabric (4)

23 Japanese rich sauce made from soy beans naturally fermented with wheat or barley (5)

24 Peter —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for Topkapi (7) 25 Disturbed 17-year-old in 1973 Peter Shaffer stage play Equus (4,6)

DOWN

1 Vance —, US journalist; author of 1957 book The Hidden Persuaders (7)

2 City in central Poland formerly associated with the textile industry (4)

3 Region of eastern Ethiopia bordering on Somalia (6) 4 Elongated flexible organ of which a cuttlefish has two (8) 5 and 6 William Shakespear­e play featuring characters Costard and Jaquenetta (5,7,4) 6 See 5 Down

7 1950 film drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter; 1951 Best Picture Oscar winner (3,5,3)

13 Alison —, 18th-century Scottish poet who authored a version of ballad The Flowers of the Forest (8) 16 In Germany, one-hundredth of a Deutschmar­k until the introducti­on of the euro (7)

17 Marcel —, French author of heptalogy A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (6)

19 One of a class of supernatur­al creatures in Scandinavi­an folklore that dwell in caves and mountains (5)

22 Portico in ancient Greek architectu­re (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Sloppily (10)

8 Give up altogether (7) 9 Insect grub (5) 10 Unemployme­nt benefit (4)

11 Soon (4)

12 Take a pew! (3)

14 Edible shellfish (6)

15 Watch out (6)

18 Choose (3) 20 Overwhelmi­ng defeat (4) 21 Couple (4)

23 Cardinal number (5) 24 Base frame of a vehicle (7)

25 Unruly (10)

DOWN

1 French wine (7) 2 Unmannered (4)

3 Inner covering of anything (6)

4 Sliver (8)

5 Noblemen (5)

6 With barely enough to live on (4-2-5) 7 Ordinary uniform of a soldier (11)

13 Intrepid (8) 16 Accumulate­s (7)

17 Type of savoury flan (6)

19 Human trunk (5) 22 Saintly ring of light (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Star

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