Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

1 1958 Commonwealth women’s 110 yards freestyle swimming gold medallist (4,6)

8 and 21 1980 film drama starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken (7,4)

9 1927 novel by Mazo De La Roche about the Whiteoak family (5)

10 Chief coal-mining and industrial region of Germany (4)

11 In weaving, the yarn woven across the width of a fabric (4)

12 God of war in Norse

mythology (3)

14 See 1 Down

15 Don —, actor who won five Emmy awards in the 1960s for his role as Deputy Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show (6)

18 Ridge at the upper end of the fingerboard of a violin (3)

20 Nicolas —, director of films Two Deaths, Bad Timing and Track 29 (4) 21 See 8 Across 23 Standard monetary

unit of Nigeria (5)

24 and 3 Down 19th-century US songwriter whose works include Old Folks At Home and Beautiful Dreamer (7,6)

25 Micheline —, 1948 Olympic shot and discus gold medallist (10)

DOWN

1 and 14 Across

1912 novella by Thomas Mann whose central character is Gustav von Aschenbach (5,2,6)

2 Watery liquid that separates from the curd when milk is clotted (4)

3 See 24 Across 4 Stork of southern Asia such as the Greater — or Lesser — (8)

5 Port in Israel on the

Gulf of Aqaba (5)

6 2015 adventure film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy (3,8)

7 1976 and 1977 500cc motorcycle world champion (5,6)

13 1983 crime film drama starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana (8)

16 Brian —, winner of the 1980 Australian Open singles tennis championship (7)

17 Part of a ship’s equipment or cargo that is purposely cast overboard (6)

19 1988 comedy-drama film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito (5)

22 Peter —, 17th-century painter whose works include Girl with a Parrot and Two Ladies of the Lake Family (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Crossword ACROSS

1 Collapse in a series of folds (10)

8 Whale fat (7)

9 Physical strength (5) 10 Unfortunately (4)

11 Organ of flight (4)

12 Prosecute (3)

14 Broad street (6)

15 Surgical knife (6)

18 Skill (3)

20 Enlarged (4)

21 Pull along (4)

23 Perch (5)

24 Not strict (7)

25 Jelly-like dessert (10)

DOWN

1 Bravery (7)

2 Arrests (4)

3 Insect (6)

4 Sleigh (8)

5 Approaches (5)

6 Word said by conjurors (11)

7 Inquire into thoroughly (11)

13 Wolfram (8)

16 Funeral procession (7) 17 Noisy confused situation (6)

19 Mythological Scandinavian being (5) 22 Privy to (2,2) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror