Sunday Independent Quizword No. 512

We are offering a €50 One4all Gift Card to three Sunday Independent readers with this Quizword, compiled by John Murphy

ACROSS:

1. Which Irish rider was the top jockey at last month’s Cheltenham Festival? (9)

8. Youngest family member in The Simpsons. (6)

9. Priest commemorated by a prominent statue on Cork’s St Patrick’s Street. (6)

10. Galileo Galilei Airport serves which city? (4)

12. Which major airline, no longer in existence, was owned by Howard Hughes? (1,1,1)

13. The ____ is one of British racing’s five Classics. (4)

16. Leading streaming platform for online gaming. (6)

17. Name shared by many GAA clubs. (4,2)

18. “For what shall it profit a man, __ __ shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”, Mark 8:36. (2,2)

21. & 22. Magazine published by the Irish Christian Brothers for many years. (3,4)

24. Which Wilson Phillips song features in the film Bridesmaids? (4,2)

25. RTÉ News’s recently retired Northern Editor. (6)

26. Film starring Frances McDormand which is tipped to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. (9)

DOWN:

2. Which Warsaw team is Poland’s most successful football club? (5)

3. Which is the fastest land animal? (7)

4. The Black _____ is Africa’s longest venomous snake. (5)

5. The relation between two numbers expressed as a proportion (e.g. 3:1 or 7:3). (5)

6. Which surrealist artist helped create the dream sequence in Hitchcock’s Spellbound? (4)

7. According to Matthew 5:5, the ____ “shall inherit the Earth”. (4)

10. & 11. Which singer accepted Bob Dylan’s Nobel

Prize on his behalf ? (5,5)

14. “Anybody can be good in the country. There ___ __ temptations there”, Oscar Wilde. (3,2)

15. Bridge of _____: famous sight in Venice. (5)

17. The highest peak in Co Donegal. (7)

19. What is pictured on a Leap Card? (4)

20. “Mankind must put an ___ __ war before war puts an ___ __ mankind” — JFK. (3,2)

21. Name of the Irish Dairy Board. (5)

22. Which celebrated English poet died during the Greek War of Independence? (5)

23. Mel Gibson starred in The ____ Of Living Dangerously. (4)