Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Quizword & Crossword

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

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QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS

6 English abstract painter married to sculptor Barbara Hepworth from 1938-51 (3,9)

8 1997 film drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet (7)

9 Simon —, English golfer; 2006, 2009 and 2011 KLM Open tournament winner (5) 10 Part of the lower back also called the lumbus (4)

12 Ancient Greek city; site of the most famous oracle of Apollo (6)

14 Francoise —, author of 1954 novel

Bonjour Tristesse (5)

15 and 12 Down

The —, 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder (6,3)

16 One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprin­t (4)

19 Wall painting done on dried plaster with tempera or pigments ground in limewater (5) 21 Jo —, female cast member of long-running BBC Radio comedy series I’m Sorry,

I’ll Read That Again (7) 22 Actor who played Professor Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series (5,7)

DOWN

1 and 5 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter starring William Gaxton and Ethel Merman (8,4) 2 Roman goddess of the

hunt and the moon (5)

3 Cut of beef extending from the neck to the shoulder blade (5)

4 Battle of —, 1513 military combat near Branxton, Northumber­land, at which James IV of Scotland was killed (7) 5 See 1 Down

6 Second brightest star in constellat­ion Orion (10)

7 Name of twin brothers in William Shakespear­e play The Comedy of Errors on whom the twin brothers named Dromio are attendant (10)

11 Jonathan —, Germany and Bayer Leverkusen football defender (3)

12 See 15 Across 13 Charles —, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8)

14 US port on the Mississipp­i River; largest city in Missouri (2,5)

17 Bottom-dwelling ray with a flattened diamond-shaped body (5)

18 Major mountain system

of South America (5) 20 Burrowing bivalve mollusc such as the quahog (4)

CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS

6 Utterly absurd (12)

8 Pantries (7)

9 Star sign (5)

10 Children’s game (1-3) 12 Three-legged stand (6) 14 Relating to milk products (5)

15 Racket sport (6)

16 Perceive sounds (4)

19 Manservant (5)

21 Medium (7)

22 Disregardi­ng rules, unfair (5,3,4)

DOWN

1 Water tortoise (8)

2 Twelve (5)

3 Store in a secret place (5) 4 Courage (7)

5 Contented cat noise (4)

6 Relieving without curing (10)

7 Rapt surprise (10)

11 Domestic fuel (3)

12 Make an attempt (3)

13 Ready (8)

14 Choice and use of words (7)

17 Our planet (5)

18 Flat round soft cap (5) 20 Fibs (4)

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