Irish Sunday Mirror

QUIZWORD CLUES

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ACROSS

6 1973 stage play by Alan Ayckbourn; first part of The Norman Conquests trilogy (5,7) 8 Hard rubber also called vulcanite used for electrical insulators (7) 9 1982 film drama starring Veronica Quilligan and Stephen Rea (5) 10 Mark on the floor behind which a darts player must stand to throw (4) 12 Member of a hill-dwelling people inhabiting mainly Arunachal Pradesh, India (6) 14 Region of west central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea (5) 15 Ivor —, British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917’s Severn & Somme (6) 16 White or pale-coloured mineral found in metamorphi­c rocks (4) 19 Capital of South Korea (5) 21 Second son of Joseph and Asenath according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible (7) 22 See 1 Down

DOWN

1 and 22 Across 2000 comedy-drama film starring George Clooney and John Turturro (1,7,5,3,4) 2 John —, 1989 World Indoor Championsh­ips 200m gold medallist (5) 3 Grenville —, English sculptor who won the Turner Prize in 1992 (5) 4 Province of central Canada; capital Toronto (7) 5 Diluted rum issued to the British Navy whose name derived from the nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon (4) 6 and 11 1962 war film, a 1963 Best Picture Oscar nominee, about the 1944 D-day invasion of Normandy (3,7,3) 7 Political party in Wales formed in 1925 (5,5) 11 See 6 Down 12 Any of various types of Soviet fighter aircraft (1,1,1) 13 The Song of —, 1855 poem by H W Longfellow (8) 14 Charles —, French general; brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte (7) 17 Any of the separate parts of the calyx of a flower (5) 18 Nevil —, author of novels On the Beach and Beyond the Black Stump (5) 20 Island in central Hawaii whose chief town is Honolulu (4)

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