SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No296

We are offering a €50 book token to three Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy

ACROSS: 1. Who played Hugh Grant’s love interest in Four

Weddings and a Funeral? (9) 8. Which Canadian province held a referendum on

secession in 1995? (6) 9. Who scored Ireland’s first ever goal at the World

Cup finals? (6) 10. Members of ____ Moran’s gang were the victims

of the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. (4) 12. UK retail chain which went bust last year. (1,1,1) 13. Which New York stadium was the scene of a

famous concert by the Beatles in 1965? (4) 16. “A life spent making mistakes is ... more ______

than a life spent doing nothing”, GB Shaw. (6) 17. For which film has Ruth Negga been nominated

for an Oscar? (6) 18. To slightly change the colour of something. (4) 21. Popular name for the USA’s central bank. (3) 22. The ____ is one of the best-selling video game

franchises of all time. (4) 24. Who played the father of the family in The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van? (6) 25. Donald Trump’s eldest daughter. (6) 26. Which club does a golfer use to get out of a

bunker? (4,5) DOWN: 2. Mahmoud _____ is the President of Palestine. (5) 3. Unit used to measure the intensity of sound. (7) 4. Who will Leinster play in a European Champions

Cup quarter-final in April? (5) 5. In which city was Jeremy Paxman born? (5) 6. Who sang Boom Bang-a-Bang, a (joint) Eurovision winner for the UK? (4) 7. Garfield’s canine housemate. (4) 10. Played the title role in The Girl on the Train. (5) 11. Which recently deceased former astronaut was

the first American to orbit the Earth? (5) 14. Character synonymous with the Swiss Alps. (5) 15. Dundalk newspaper. (5) 17. Industrial Revolution term, now used to describe

someone opposed to new technologies. (7) 19. Which index measures the performance of the

Dublin stock exchange? (4) 20. The Sipi Tau is which country’s equivalent of the

All Blacks’ Haka? (5) 21. Dodi _____ died alongside Princess Diana. (5) 22. Emmet _____: former Labour TD. (5) 23. Thirteenth entry in the NATO phonetic alphabet

(Alfa, Bravo, Charlie etc). (4) Solutions to Sunday Independent Quizword No 295 ACROSS: 7. Wallis Simpson. 8. Dystopia. 9. Emma. 10. Gannet. 12. Ganges. 14. Gallop. 16. Orkney. 18. Scar. 20. Coxswain. 22. Circus Maximus. DOWN: 1. Lady Gaga. 2. Zlatan. 3. RSVP. 4. DiMaggio. 5. Spleen. 6. Poem. 11. Typecast. 13. Emeritus. 15. Lyrics. 17. Kuwait. 19. Clio. 21. X-Ray. Winners of Sunday Independent Quizword No 295 Bernie O’Beirne, Clooncolry, Co Leitrim Noreen McCarthy, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan Lilian Quinn, Milltown, Dublin 6