Quizword & Crossword

Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.

Quizword ACROSS

1 Fine-grained yellowishbrown accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind (5)

7 Jerzy —, author of the novels The Painted Bird and Being There (8)

8 Johan —, 1981 Australian Open singles tennis champion (5)

10 The —, 2002 novel by

Rani Manicka (4,6)

12 Thomas —, furniture maker who authored The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book (8)

14 Mark on the floor behind which a darts player must stand to throw (4)

16 Max —, World Heavyweight boxing champion from 1934-35 (4)

17 and 1 Down

1943 war drama film starring Patricia Roc and Gordon Jackson (8,4,2)

20 1968 Olympic men’s pole vault gold medallist (3,7)

23 Capital of Bulgaria (5) 24 State capital of

Virginia, US (8)

25 Island north of Zanzibar that produces most of the world’s cloves (5)

DOWN

1 See 17 Across 2 Antony —, late actor who played Hitler in 2004 film comedy Churchill: The

Hollywood Years (4)

3 Port on Osaka Bay,

Honshu, Japan (4)

4 and 18

Historian; presenter of the BBC TV series The American Future and The Story of the Jews (5,6)

5 and 15

1991 novel by Jeffrey Archer (2,3,4,5)

6 Ambrose —, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (6)

9 R B —, US painter whose works include 1967’s Juan de La Cruz (5)

11 Anselm —, German painter whose works include 1868 oil In Spring (9)

13 Broad sash tied in a large bow at the back worn by Japanese women and children as part of the national costume (3)

15 See 5 Down

16 Alonzo —, 1984 Olympic men’s 400m gold medallist (6)

18 See 4 Down

19 Enrico —, Italian nuclear physicist who headed the group that produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (5)

21 Former coal mining town in Limburg, NE Belgium (4)

22 Former gold rush town in W Alaska; finishing point of the Iditarod trail sled dog race (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Lose blood (5)

7 Main body of an aircraft (8)

8 Ancient artifact (5)

10 Competitor (10)

12 Of ships or navigation (8)

14 Fossil fuel (4)

16 Place where trees grow (4)

17 Thing that recalls the past (8)

20 Protection on fences or walls (6,4) 23 Sailing vessel (5) 24 Really (8)

25 Accustomed (5)

DOWN

1 Unproductive, bare (6) 2 Heroic (4)

3 Is obliged to (4)

4 Untidy (5)

5 Wandering beggars (9) 6 Dhal ingredient (6)

9 Severe pain in the abdomen (5)

11 Absolute rulers (9)

13 Generation (3)

15 Person’s private book (5)

16 Filming device on a computer (6)

18 Hire charge (6)

19 Of the kidneys (5)

21 Wither (4)

22 Wheat spikes (4)