Quiz Crossword

ACROSS 1 Cheese type (10) 6 Introduce gradually (6) 7 Hangman’s halter (5) 9 Sudden fear or alarm (6) 10 Spicy (3) 11 Implement for smoothing clothes (4) 14 Style and vigour (4) 15 Fish (3) 16 Of horses (6) 17 Turret (5) 18 Subtle difference (6) 20 Unfinished (10) DOWN 1 Weapon (3) 2 Go back (6) 3 Do a service or favour to (6) 4 Highest point (6) 5 Gap in the law (8) 6 Liable to happen soon (8) 8 Ensnare or enmesh (8) 9 Cricket term (6-2) 12 Not far from (4,2) 13 Vegetable (6) 14 Infuriate (6) 19 Signal to speak or act (3) 1 The nest in which a hare lives (4) 8 Island territory of the US whose capital is San Juan (6,4) 9 Macaroni in the form of short ridged slightly curved pieces (8) 10 Robert, US engineer who died in 2005 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named (4) 12 Sean, Irish comedian and author of the novels It’s What He Would’ve Wanted and The Detainees (6) 14 and 15 French author of the novel À la recherche du temps perdu (6,6) 15 See 14 17 Frank Lloyd, US architect whose designs include the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (6) 18 and 17 Down Andrzej Bartkowiak film starring Steven Seagal as Orin Boyd (4,6) 19 Submarine of Captain Nemo in the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (8) 21 Beryl, author of the novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker (10) 22 George, author of the novel François le Champi (4) 2 Opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky based on a play by Sophocles (7,3) 3 Political party that declared independence for Angola in 1975 (4) 4 Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology who was killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal (6) 5 The upper chamber of each half of the heart (6) 6 Hindu trinity of the gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva (8) 7 Björn, Wimbledon men’s singles tennis champion 1976-80 (4) 11 Industrial city in Germany on the Rhine-Herne Canal (10) 13 “The ...”, Jan de Bont film starring Lili Taylor and Liam Neeson (8) 16 Vast treeless zone between the ice cap and timber line of North America and Eurasia (6) 17 See 18 Across 18 River in central Europe that flows to the North Sea at Hamburg (4) 20 Charles, composer of 1891’s Variations on ‘America’ (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: - 7 Uttar. 8 Pradesh. 9 Packard. 10 Elder. 12 SherryBaby. 15 Lone Ranger. 18 Weird. 19 Science. 21 Scutari. 22 Krill. Down: - 1 Murphy’s Law. 2 Stich. 3 Aria. 4 Spider. 5 Jane Eyre. 6 Feydeau. 11 Royal Jelly. 13 Herodias. 14 Antigua. 16 Nesbit. 17 Anvil. 20 Ickx.