Quiz Crossword
1 Brags (6) 2 Large feline mammal (4) 3 Predicament (7) 4 Pulsate repeatedly (5) 5 Zodiac sign (3) 6 Lustre (5) 7 Rook in chess (6) 10 Tall cupboard (6) 12 Sets upon (7) 14 Australian city (6) 15 Compact or firm (5) 16 Army officer (5) 17 This place (4) 19 Petty lie (3) Down: - 1 Regiment. 2 Cambodia. 3 In vain. 4 Turban. 5 Crisis. 6 Flap. 11 Demerara. 12 Preserve. 15 Lustre. 16 Ethics. 17 Catgut. 20 Also.
- 1 Balsam. 5 Whinge. 10 Au contraire. 11 Loo. 12 Dark. 13 Outpatient. 15 Nosegay. 16 Titanic. 18 Affront. 21 Chelsea. 23 Serbo-croat. 24 Pimp. 26 Obi. 27 Infiltrator. 28 Grates. 29 Tenant. Down: - 2 Accords. 3 Song. 4 Mercury. 5 Whippet. 6 Identities. 7 Galleon. 8 Gardenia. 9 Lout. 14 Agronomist. 17 Champers. 19 Farrier. 20 Tariffs. 21 Chaplet. 22 Smitten. 23 Stop. 25 Iron. 7 Island off the NW coast of Venezuela that was part of the Netherlands Antilles until 1986 (5) 8 Benjamin Nnamdi, President of Nigeria 1963-66 (7) 9 Protein hormone secreted in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans (7) 10 Dish consisting of small pieces of meat and vegetables threaded onto skewers and grilled over charcoal (5) 12 Director of the films Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (5,5) 15 2000 Curtis Hanson comedy-drama film starring Michael Douglas (6,4) 18 See 11 Down 19 1985 Peter Weir film starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis (7) 21 See 3 Down 22 “The …”, John Lee Hancock film featuring Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett (5) 1 Singer-actor whose film roles include Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth (5,5) 2 Kirsten, actress who played the title role in the 2006 film Marie Antoinette (5) 3 and 21 Across French painter whose works include 1888’s Avenue at Chantilly (4,7) 4 Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) 5 Author, actor and sleight-of-hand expert whose film roles include Kurt Longjohn in Boogie Nights (5,3) 6 Grinling, English sculptor and woodcarver who died in 1721 (7) 11 and 18 Across Author of the 1998 novel Glamorama (4,6,5) 13 Long-tailed bird such as the ring-necked …, Phasianus colchicus (8) 14 and 20 2002 Harold Ramis film starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal (7,4) 16 Sally, character in the film Cabaret played by Liza Minnelli (6) 17 Brendan, author of the play The Quare Fellow (5) 20 See 14 Across: - 1 Walpurgis. 8 Woo. 9 Jacques Tati. 11 Trapani. 12 Night. 13 Oxtail. 15 Vereen. 17 Smith. 18 Aldo Ray. 20 Eric Liddell. 22 Car. 23 Notre Dame. Down: - 2 A-ha. 3 Uvula. 4 Gossip. 5 Shawnee. 6 Swingletree. 7 Courtenay. 10 Coastliners. 11 Taoiseach. 14 Ich Dien. 16 Hamlet. 19 Dodie. 21 Lom.