Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
3 Body of water in the Lake District at the northern end of which lies Pooley Bridge (9) 8 Main port and commercial capital of Yemen (4)
9 Dan —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for 1954’s Robinson Crusoe (8) 10 Gregory —, golfer who won the 2009 Hong Kong Open (6) 13 City in northeast Netherlands; capital of the province of Drenthe (5)
14 Port in west Greece; site of a 1571 naval battle (7) 15 Initialism for the federal US bureau created in 1947 to conduct espionage activities (3)
16 and 21 1985 comedy-drama film starring Kris Kristofferson and Keith Carradine (7,2,4) 17 Largest French-speaking city in Belgium (5)
21 See 16 Across 22 The —, 1957 Meredith Wilson Broadway musical set in River City, Iowa (5,3) 23 Aromatic Eurasian plant whose leaves are used for flavouring in pickles (4) 24 Radioactive chemical element; symbol Bk (9)
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1 J K —, economist whose books include The New Industrial State (9) 2 1965 film thriller starring Catherine Deneuve and Ian Hendry (9) 4 John —, December, 1977 Australian Open singles tennis championship runner-up (5) 5 Abandoned baby in the Popeye cartoon series (7)
6 H M —, South Africa Test cricketer who hit 176 n.o. against New Zealand at Johannesburg in 2007 (4)
7 Word representing the letter E in the NATO phonetic alphabet (4) 11 Inflammation of the intestine (9) 12 Miles —, first translator of the complete Bible into English in 1535 (9) 14 Trygve —, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1946-52 (3) 15 County town of South Tipperary, Republic of Ireland (7) 18 River in Brazil that rises on the Mato Grosso plateau before flowing north to the Amazon delta (5) 19 John Stuart, Earl of —, British Prime Minister from 1762-63 (4) 20 Stewart —, golfer who won The Open Championship in 2009 (4)
Crossword ACROSS
3 Pirate (9)
8 Atop (4)
9 One in charge of a gaming table (8) 10 Offhand (6) 13 Representative (5) 14 One thousand million (7) 15 Female swan (3) 16 Intellectual (7) 17 Court card (5) 21 National song (6) 22 Something very large (8) 23 Married
German woman (4) 24 Innocent (9)
DOWN
1 Buys (9)
2 Racing sledge (9) 4 Male relative (5) 5 Register one’s arrival at work (5,2) 6 Neck part (4) 7 Paradise (4) 11 Jointly-owned holiday property (4-5) 12 Nameless (9) 14 Sleeping place (3) 15 Sunshade (7) 18 Foundation (5) 19 Fossil fuel (4) 20 Space (4)