SUNDAY INDEPENDENT QUIZWORD No390
We are offering a €50 book token to three Sunday Independent readers with this quizword, compiled by John Murphy
ACROSS: 4. & 6. Long-running TV show in which celebrities
guessed definitions of obscure words. (4,2,5) 8. PDF files are created with Adobe _______. (7) 9. “Nine ____-rows will I have there”, WB Yeats. (4) 10. Which former sportsman is to become a
presenter on Top Gear? (8) 13. Muscle at the back of your leg. (4) 14. Old unit of area equal to a quarter of an acre. (4) 15. What do you call a group of whales? (3) 17. What is Ganymede? (4) 19. 2007 Irish film which also became a musical. (4) 20. Jewish Festival of Lights which begins today. (8) 22. Which lyricist co-wrote such musicals as Evita,
Chess and Jesus Christ Superstar? (4) 24. Nurse _______ is a central character in One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. (7) 26. Which club do Irish internationals John O’Shea,
Paul McShane and David Meyler play for? (7) 27. Which river flows through Bath and Bristol? (4) DOWN: 1. The largest town on the Isle of Wight. (4) 2. Which group famously sang in Irish on Top of the
Pops? (7) 3. “__ ___ the gin joints in all the towns in all the
world, she walks into mine”, Casablanca. (2,3) 4. The best-selling imported beer in the US. (6) 5. Sport: which verb describes arching the ball over
an opponent? (3) 7. Gwen _______ was the singer in No Doubt. (7) 10. Uefa regulations created in order to stop clubs
spending more than they earn. (1,1,1) 11. In Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf, which instrument
is used to represent the duck? (4)
12. Lord’s Cricket Ground was the venue for which
sport at the 2012 Olympic Games in London? (7) 13. Which brothers directed The Big Lebowski and
No Country for Old Men? (4) 16. Homer Simpson catchphrase. (3) 17. Surname of the late Big Tom. (7) 18. Meals in Minutes presenter. (6) 21. “High King” in Irish. (3,2) 23. The Cross of ____ is one of the National
Museum’s greatest treasures. (4) 25. France’s high-speed rail service. (1,1,1) Solutions to Sunday Independent Quizword No 389 ACROSS: 6. The Go-Between. 8. Piebald. 8. Nidge. 10. Arts. 12. Sewell. 14. Satay. 15. Yorick. 16. Lira. 19. Klopp. 21. Bronson. 22. Villierstown. DOWN: 1. Semester. 2.Today. 3. Leeds. 4. Twankey. 5. Seed. 6. Teppanyaki. 7. Neil Hannon. 11. Yak. 12. Sap. 13. Eriksson. 14. Scapula. 17. Abbey. 18. Boise. 20. Ohio.