QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

6 US painter whose works include 1942’s Nighthawks (6,6) 8 Denis —, Russian cyclist; 2007 Vuelta a Espana winner (7) 9 and 13 Down 1998 action-comedy film starring Kirsten Dunst and Gregory Smith (5,8) 10 and 14 Down DJ and television presenter whose credits include Multi-coloured Swap Shop and Deal or No Deal (4,7) 12 US city; seat of the University of Arizona (6) 14 and 18 Down 1977 stage play by Howard Brenton (5,5) 15 Genus of herbaceous plants that includes dyer’s rocket and white mignonette (6) 16 September, 1854 battle in the Crimean War (4) 19 1941 animated film featuring the character Timothy Q Mouse (5) 21 Method of teaching people to read by recognising individual sounds (7) 22 Shrub native to S Asia with clusters of showy red, purple, white or pink flowers (12)

DOWN

1 1996 comedy-drama film starring Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn (8) 2 Erik —, Danish dancer; 1967-73 director of the Swedish Opera Ballet (5) 3 Purple-flowered plant whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking (5) 4 Thick-furred marsupial of the Americas with a hairless prehensile tail (7) 5 Second letter of the Greek alphabet (4) 6 Cow in children’s animated television series The Magic Roundabout (10) 7 Former Liverpool and Scotland footballer whose credits as a pundit include BBC TV’S Match of the Day (4,6) 11 Resort town in Belgium with medicinal mineral springs (3) 12 The —, 1982 film comedy starring Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason (3) 13 See 9 Across 14 See 10 Across 17 Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one (5) 18 See 14 Across 20 Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named (4)