Irish Sunday Mirror

QUIZWORD CLUES

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ACROSS

6 1983 comedy-drama starring Tom Conti and Kelly Mcgillis (6,6) 8 Genus of North American plants cultivated for their white, red, purple or pink flowers (7) 9 Small aromatic plant of the mint family (5) 10 Long-legged wading bird such as the sacred — or straw-necked — (4) 12 Marcel —, French author of heptalogy A la recherche du temps perdu (6) 14 Hal —, lyricist who co-wrote Oscar-winning song Raindrops Keep Fallin‘ on My Head (5)

15 and 21 Hairy biennial herb also known as Jack-by-the-hedge (6,7) 16 Code word for the letter P in the NATO phonetic alphabet (4) 19 2004 comedy-drama starring Jude Law in the title role (5)

21 See 15 Across 22 City and political capital of Ivory Coast (12)

DOWN

1 Jean-claude —, president of Haiti from 1971-86 (8) 2 Mervyn —, author of the Gormenghas­t trilogy (5)

3 and 4 National bird of Hungary reintroduc­ed to Wiltshire in 2004 (5,7) 4 See 3 Down 5 Eugene —, actor who played Mitch Cohen in 2003 comedy A Mighty Wind (4) 6 2nd Marquis of —, prime minister from 1765-66 and in 1782 (10) 7 1855 novel by Charles Kingsley (8,2) 11 Resinous substance secreted by certain insects used in the manufactur­e of shellac (3) 12 Mammal from which pork is obtained (3) 13 Largest settlement of the Aleutian Islands off SW Alaska (8) 14 Denis —, 18th-century philosophe­r; chief editor of the Encycloped­ie (7) 17 US and Canadian Mennonite sect that traces its origin to Jakob Amman (5) 18 Mary —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for The Great Lie (5) 20 Young of a horse (4)

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