Quizword & Crossword QUIZWORD CLUES
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
ACROSS 3 English snooker player; 2016 World Open tournament winner (3,6) 8 Kingsley —, author of 1955 novel That Uncertain Feeling (4) 9 1987 horror film starring Adrian Pasdar and Jenny Wright (4,4) 10 Hussain Mohammad —, president of Bangladesh from 1983-90 (6) 13 SI unit of work or energy (5) 14 Al —, US singer-actor who played Johnny Fontane in 1972 film drama The Godfather (7) 15 1979 film drama starring Mel Gibson in the title role (3) 16 Chiwetel —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for 12 Years a Slave (7) 17 Town in Skane, southern Sweden, associated with fictional detective Kurt Wallander (5) 21 See 1 Down
22 Toxic greenish-yellow gas; symbol Cl (8) 23 State-owned airline created in 1939 by a merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways (inits) 24 Late 19th-century art movement whose exponents included Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau (9) DOWN
1 and 21 Across Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Sixth Sense (5,4,6) 2 1888 stage play by August Strindberg first performed the following year (4,5) 4 Shipping forecast area north of Plymouth and east of Fastnet (5) 5 Town in Kent on the River Medway that formerly housed a Royal Navy Dockyard (7) 6 Amber —, Home Secretary appointed in 2016 (4) 7 British nobleman ranking below a marquess and above a viscount (4) 11 Eurasian shrub with waxy white berries associated with the Christmas season (9) 12 1826 novel by Walter Scott subtitled The Cavalier (9) 14 Russian space station launched in February, 1986 (3) 15 Jayne —, 1984 Olympic ice dancing gold medalwinning partner of Christopher Dean (7) 18 City in North RhineWestphalia, Germany, on the River Rhine west of Duisburg (5) 19 Watery liquid that separates from the curd when milk is clotted (4) 20 Old Testament army captain who put Absalom to death (4)
CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
3 Manly (9) 8 Very dry (4) 9 Sign of approval (6,2) 10 Mohair (6) 13 Horse controls (5) 14 Aimless or rootless person (7) 15 Month (3) 16 Spectre (7) 17 Bedspread (5) 21 Tolerates, endures (6) 22 Infirmary (8) 23 Asian language (4) 24 Person’s children (9)
DOWN
1 Block of text (9) 2 Imaginary instrument played to rock (3,6) 4 Communion table (5) 5 Nation (7) 6 Ear part (4) 7 Naming word (4) 11 Dock worker (9) 12 Strangely distorted (9) 14 Water barrier (3) 15 School prefect (7) 18 Bird’s claw (5) 19 Mass of bread (4) 20 Mimics (4)