Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 and 17 1992 film thriller starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone (5,8) 7 Japanese golfer; 1978 World Match Play Championship winner (4,4) 8 Mel —, Pop Art painter whose works include Lola Cola and Elephant Seal (5) 10 Anita Brookner 1984 Booker-McConnell Prize-winning novel (5,2,3) 12 See 20 Across 14 Tommy —, German tennis player; 2013 BMW Open singles tournament winner (4) 16 Front part of the lower leg (4) 17 See 1 Across 20 and 12 1956 novel by Nelson Algren (1,4,2,3,4,4) 23 Rocky —, rugby union flanker; 2005 Australia Test debutant against Samoa (5) 24 Giacomo —, 500cc motorcycle world championship winner from 1966-72 (8) 25 John —, 1989 World Indoor Championships 200m gold medallist (5)
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1 EJ —, South Africa Test cricketer who hit 201 against Australia at the Adelaide Oval in 1964 (6) 2 City and state capital of Perak, Malaysia (4) 3 Noble family of Italy that governed Modena and Reggio from the 13th to the 18th century (4)
4 James —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Ghosts of Mississippi (5) 5 1960 Walt Disney film starring Hayley Mills in the title role (9) 6 See 15 Down
9 John Philip —, US composer of marches The Stars and Stripes Forever and Semper Fidelis (5) 11 Large crocodilian of the southern US (9) 13 River that rises in the Cairngorm Mountains before flowing east to the North Sea (3)
15 and 6 1939 film comedy starring Groucho Marx as J Cheever Loophole (2,3,6) 16 Beetle regarded as divine by the ancient Egyptians (6) 18 Henry —, child actor who played Elliott in 1982 family film ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (6) 19 Bottom-dwelling ray with a flattened diamondshaped body (5) 21 Trevor —, chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1968-86 (4) 22 River in central Europe that flows to the North Sea at Hamburg (4)
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1 Imperfections, blemishes (5) 7 Railway coach (8) 8 Explosion (5) 10 Rugby move (4,6) 12 Of theoretical interest only (8) 14 Elderly (4) 16 Knock against (4) 17 Novice (8) 20 River bird (10) 23 Wanderer (5) 24 Jewellery item (8) 25 Fence of bushes (5)
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1 Leg bone (6) 2 Clean with water (4) 3 Deep cut (4) 4 Wide (5) 5 Box or wrapping an item is sold in (9) 6 Protect (6) 9 Multiplied by (5) 11 Science of musical sounds (9) 13 Anger (3) 15 Restored from death (5) 16 Swimming costume (6) 18 Conundrum (6) 19 In or belonging to the past (2,3) 21 Large bag (4) 22 Romantic flower (4)