Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Director of film dramas Hammett, The Million Dollar Hotel and Paris, Texas (3,7)
8 Wendy —, actress who played Pauline Fowler in BBC TV soap EastEnders (7)
9 Unit of distance in navigation equal to one tenth of a sea mile (5) 10 River rising in northern France that flows through Belgium into the North Sea at Nieuwpoort (4)
11 Ship designed for Fridtjof Nansen’s 1893 Arctic explorations (4) 12 Simon —, creator of the ITV sitcoms Is It Legal? and Hardware (3)
14 Burrowing Australian marsupial with a heavy body and coarse fur (6) 15 Greg —, cyclist who won the 1986 Tour de France (6)
18 Roger —, caricaturist and ceramicist; cocreator of ITV comedy puppet series Spitting Image (3)
20 Ancient Egyptian female fertility goddess usually depicted with a cow’s horns (4)
21 John —, rugby union prop; 2005 Wales Test debutant against England (4)
23 Sven —, IBF Super Middleweight champion from 1998-2004 (5)
24 Unicameral parliament
of modern Israel (7) 25 In music, a short low melodic theme repeated over and over again (6,4)
DOWN
1 European deciduous tree with winged fruits (4,3)
2 Lake —, reservoir in Arizona and Nevada formed by the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River (4)
3 Pat —, jockey who rode Derby winners Grundy, Golden Fleece and Quest for Fame (6)
4 Twelfth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar (8)
5 Yitzhak —, prime minister of Israel from 1992-95 (5)
6 Horse ridden by Pat Smullen that won the 2004 Irish Derby (4,7) 7 2001 romcom starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale (11)
13 Horse ridden by Frankie Dettori that won the 2004 Gold Cup at Ascot (8)
16 Aristotle —, Turkey-born shipowner who married Jackie Kennedy in 1968 (7)
17 Broadway show featuring Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel; 2004 Tony Award Best Musical nominee (6)
19 1985 film comedy starring Michael Caine and Valerie Perrine (5) 22 White sheep or goat cheese popular in Greece (4)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror