Quiz Crossword

ACROSS 1 Triangle having two sides of equal length (9) 8 Brian, musician and record producer who coined the term ambient music (3) 9 and 23 1989 film starring Jeff and Beau Bridges in the title roles as pianists (3,8,5,4) 11 Former unit of currency of the Netherlands which ceased to be legal tender in 2002 (7) 12 See 22 13 Gavin, English composer whose works include the opera Doctor Ox’s Experiment (6) 15 Port and industrial centre in Russia on the River Don (6) 17 Claudio, Chile-born classical pianist who died in 1991 (5) 18 George M, 19th Century US manufacturer of luxury railway coaches (7) 20 US writer who was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road (4,7) 22 and 12 Across 1998 Bryan Singer film based on a novella by Stephen King (3,5) 23 See 9 DOWN 2 In music, the name used for the fifth note of any scale (3) 3 Variety of beet with large succulent leaves and thick stalks which is used as a vegetable (5) 4 Paris art gallery and museum (6) 5 Eighth sign of the zodiac (7) 6 Ancient region of Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (11) 7 Body of water in Scotland housing a castle that was the place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (4,5) 10 Author of the novel Wuthering Heights (5,6) 11 Overseas territory of the UK ceded by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht (9) 14 Plant whose leafstalks are cooked, sweetened and eaten as a dessert (7) 16 Sissy, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Coal Miner’s Daughter (6) 19 Device producing a very powerful narrow beam of coherent light of a single wavelength (5) 21 Doris, actress who played the title role in the film Calamity Jane (3)