Quizword & Crossword

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

QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS

6 and 9 1994

Coen Brothers comedy-drama film starring Tim Robbins and Jennifer

Jason Leigh (3,9,5) Doug —, actor who played David Innes in 1976 fantasy film At the Earth’s Core (7)

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German car manufacturer;

2004-08 Le Mans 24-hour race winner (4) Percy —, soul singer noted for 1966 single and album When a

Man Loves a Woman (6) Amino acid occurring naturally in the body used to treat Parkinson’s disease (1-4) UK non-ministerial department which inspects and regulates services that care for children and young people (6)

16 Den of an otter (4)

19 and 22 1983 comedy-drama film starring Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine (5,2,10) Gambling card game fashionable in the 16th-century played with a 40-card deck (7) 22 See 19 Across

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Eleoncio —,

1982-83 WBC

Flyweight champion (8) Variety of wheat with a high gluten content used to make pasta (5)

Paul —, actor who played Barry Grant in Channel 4 soap Brookside (5) Either of the two large flat triangular bones also called a shoulder blade (7) Captain of submarine the Nautilus in 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues

Under the Sea (4)

1988 Olympic men’s singles tennis silver medallist (3,7)

1989 biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown (2,4,4) — the Duck, puppet; official GB team mascot at the 1992 Olympics (3) The —, 1821 James Fenimore Cooper novel subtitled A Tale of the Neutral Ground (3)

Son of Tydeus and Deipyle; mythological Greek warrior in the Trojan War (8)

Doris —, Iran-born winner of the

2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)

Michael —, director of films Enigma,

Gorky Park and Nell (5) Seventh sign of the zodiac (5)

20 George —, actor who played the title role in 1945 crime film Johnny Angel (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

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