Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 The —, 1994 adventure film starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd (10) 8 One of a race of creatures in Greek mythology with the head, arms and torso of a man and the legs and lower body of a horse (7)

9 John —, rugby union hooker; 1990 England Test debutant against Argentina (5)

10 Arthur —, 1975 Wimbledon singles tennis championship winner (4)

11 Samuel —, 19thcentury inventor of a type of revolver (4) 12 Series of games in a

tennis match (3)

14 Anatoly —, world chess champion from 1975-85 (6)

15 1981 war film starring Laurence Olivier as Gen Douglas MacArthur (6)

18 Standard recording and playing system for video cassettes (1,1,1)

20 Edmund —, English tragic actor who played Shylock at Drury Lane in 1814 (4) 21 1990s BBC TV sitcom starring Lenny Henry and Roger Griffiths (4)

23 Capital of Japan from

794-1868 (5) 24 1963 film drama starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Louis Jourdan (3,4)

25 Jack —, Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1992-94 (10)

DOWN

1 and 17 1956 novel by

William Golding (7,6)

2 Small flying insect

known to bite (4)

3 Dmitri —, 2001 World Championships pole vault gold medallist (6)

4 and 5 2006 novel by

Stuart Pawson (8,5)

5 See 4 Down

6 Pyotr Ilyich —, composer of 1890 opera The Queen of Spades (11)

7 1919 novel by John

Buchan (2,9)

13 Site in Virginia, US, where General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington in 1781 (8)

16 Name proposed by the University of California, Berkeley, for element 105, Dubnium (7)

17 See 1 Down

19 Rich Japanese sauce made from soy beans naturally fermented with wheat or barley (5)

22 First wife of Jacob in

the Old Testament (4)

Crossword ACROSS

1 Natural disaster (10)

8 Regular (7)

9 Release (3,2)

10 Heroic (4)

11 Darker part of twilight (4)

12 Pigmeat (3)

14 End (6)

15 Catchword (6)

18 Headwear item (3)

20 Fever (4)

21 Eye colour (4)

23 Asserts (5)

24 Listening carefully (3,4) 25 Regardless of circumstances (2,3,5)

DOWN

1 Issue (7)

2 Castle in chess (4) 3 Hard-boiled sweet (6)

4 Far-fetched (8)

5 Two-masted sailing vessel (5)

6 Forming the surface (11)

7 Nous (6,5)

13 Hit man (8)

16 Chivalrous (7)

17 Priest’s assistant (6)

19 Clean feathers (5) 22 Run away (4)