QUIZWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Collective noun for a flock of geese in flight (5)

4 and 25 2015 Wimbledon ladies’ doubles tennis championship winner with Martina Hingis (5,5) 10 Capital of Ecuador (5) 11 Character who kills Macbeth in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) 12 1987 film drama starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (8) 13 Eric —, Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot (4)

15 and 14 Down 1973 novel by Trevanian (3,3,8) 17 Provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire (6) 19 That part of the lower back also called the lumbus (4) 20 Resort town in South Devon on the Kingsbridge Estuary (8) 23 The —, 2005 novel by Michael Connelly (7) 24 The —, 1868 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (5) 25 See 4 Across 26 Sam —, 1942, 1949 and 1951 PGA Championship winner (5)

DOWN

2 Kipchoge —, 1968 Olympic men’s 1,500m gold medallist (5) 3 Any of various trees, such as American hornbeam, with very hard wood (8) 5 One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint (4)

6 Abdalaati —, 2012 World Indoor Championships men’s 1,500m gold medallist (7) 7 2018 horror film starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski (1,5,5) 8 Yellowish-brown hard translucent fossil resin used for jewellery (5) 9 2018 film comedy starring Amy Schumer and Michelle Williams (1,4,6) 14 See 15 Across

16 Play by Sophocles about the sons of the Seven against Thebes in Greek legend (7) 18 Jean —, actress who co-created and appeared as Rose Buck in ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (5) 21 African musical instrument also called a thumb piano (5) 22 Karl —, German designer who built the first car to be driven by an internal-combustion engine (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror