QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 City in NW Portugal housing the University of Minho (5) 4 and 20 1932 novel by Evelyn Waugh set on the fictional island of Azania (5,8) 10 Region of west central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea (5) 11 2010 novel by Jonathan Franzen (7) 12 Karun —, 2010-11 F1 motor racing driver (8) 13 Joseph —, American theatre producer-director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 (4) 15 Robert —, Scottish cyclist; 1989 Kellogg’s Tour of Britain winner (6) 17 City in Poland housing the Maria Curie-sklodowska University (6) 19 Marcelo —, 1998 Australian Open singles tennis championship runner-up (4) 20 See 4 Across 23 Gottfried Wilhelm —, German philosopher and mathematician; a contemporary of Isaac Newton (7) 24 Red —, Texan oil field fire-fighting specialist who died in 2004 (5) 25 and 8 Down 1985 film drama starring Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft (5,2,3) 26 Strong polymer first produced by the Dupont firm in the 1930s (5)

DOWN

2 Miklos —, winner of a Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Oscar for Ben-hur (5) 3 See 16 Down 5 Town and administrative headquarters of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council (4) 6 Monk-detective in novels by Ellis Peters (7) 7 1939 Wimbledon ladies’ singles tennis championship winner (5,6) 8 See 25 Across 9 1878 operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan (1,1,1,8) 14 1950 crime film starring Peggy Cummins and John Dahl (3,5) 16 and 3 2006 novel by Peter James (7,4,4) 18 1953 Derby winner ridden by Gordon Richards (5) 21 US state; capital Boise (5) 22 Joint of the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur (4)