QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 and 15 Butterfly of temperate regions with dark purple, yellowbordered wings (10,6) 8 Filippo —, manager of Italian football club Milan from 2014-15 (7) 9 Standard unit of currency of Eritrea (5) 10 Richard —, British boxer; 1908 Olympic Featherweight gold medallist (4) 11 First wife of Jacob in the Old Testament (4) 12 Seventh letter in the Greek alphabet (3) 14 Municipality in Limburg, Belgium; site of the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747 (6) 15 See 1 Across

18 US wrestler-actor born Laurence Tureaud who played Clubber Lang in 1982 drama Rocky III (2,1) 20 Popular British bridge bidding system that started to evolve in the mid-1930s (4) 21 Spongy white tissue lining the rind of citrus fruits (4) 23 River upon which Rome, Italy, stands (5) 24 Lynn —, Canadian dancer who created the lead role in 1967 Kenneth MacMillan one-act ballet Anastasia (7) 25 1937 drama starring Pat O’Brien and Humphrey Bogart (3,7)

DOWN

1 Paul —, French painter whose works include 1888’s Avenue at Chantilly (7) 2 The —, sages in the Gospel of Matthew who visited Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born (4) 3 Rapper who starred in 2002 drama 8 Mile (6) 4 Capital of Namibia (8) 5 Leo Delibes opera first performed in 1883 set in 19th-century British India (5) 6 2002 novel by Sarah Waters (11) 7 London business complex housing skyscraper One Canada Square (6,5) 13 1998-2000 Champion Hurdle winner ridden by Charlie Swan (8) 16 Imaginary creature depicted as a white horse with a long spiralled horn growing from its forehead (7) 17 River in Quebec, Canada, that flows into the St Lawrence River near Sept-Iles (6) 19 Musical instrument of India consisting of a pair of drums of variable pitch (5) 22 Standard unit of currency of Myanmar (4)