Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
6 and 15 1971 film drama starring Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Murray
Head (6,6,6)
8 Catherine —, 2003 and 2007 World Championships marathon gold medallist (7)
9 1975 Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning horse ridden by Tommy Carberry (3,2)
10 Ross —, 1977
Wimbledon men’s doubles tennis championship winner with Geoff Masters (4) 12 Ben —, 1974 Commonwealth 5,000m gold medallist (6)
14 Independent state in the Pacific Ocean whose capital is
Apia (5)
15 See 6 Across 16 Nocturnal flightless
bird of New Zealand (4) 19 See 12 Down
21 Ettore —, Italy-born car manufacturer who died in France in 1947 (7)
22 A I —, West Indies Test cricketer who hit 187 against India at Mumbai in 1978 (12)
DOWN
1 Lindsay —, director of the films Britannia Hospital and This Sporting Life (8) 2 Grenville —, English sculptor who won the Turner Prize in 1992 (5) 3 German submarine in
World Wars I and II (1-4) 4 — Peninsula, northernmost part of the North America mainland (7)
5 Main port and commercial capital of Yemen (4)
6 The —, 1957 novel by
Iris Murdoch (10)
7 The —, chief parliamentary party against that in office (10)
11 Paul —, English golfer who won the 1987 Panasonic European Open (3)
12 and 19 Across
Widnes rugby league player; 1984 Man of Steel award winner (3,5)
13 1986 comedy-horror film starring Dee Wallace Stone and M Emmet Walsh (8)
14 Market town in NW France; capital of Manche department (5-2)
17 Philippine plant related to the banana whose leafstalks are the source of Manila hemp (5)
18 Samantha —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The Collector (5) 20 One sixteenth of an ounce in the avoirdupois system of weights (4)
Crossword ACROSS
6 Unfavourable circumstance or condition (12)
8 Of the skull (7)
9 Rustic (5)
10 Fury (4)
12 Putty-like
substance (6)
14 Satan (5)
15 Move unsteadily (6) 16 Group of three (4) 19 Based on
truth (5)
21 Blissful state (7)
22 Object of permanent ridicule (8,4)
DOWN
1 Edible snail (8)
2 Confess (5)
3 Bird of prey (5) 4 Everlasting (7)
5 Jelly type (4)
6 Ornamental (10) 7 Body of
voters (10)
11 That woman (3) 12 Mingle, blend (3) 13 Bullfighter (8)
14 Cul-de-sac (4,3) 17 Code word for
the letter I (5)
18 Boasts (5)
20 Plenty (4)