Quizword & Crossword

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

Quizword ACROSS

6 1893 comic opera by

Isaac Albeniz (3,5,4)

8 2005 Oaks-winning horse ridden by Richard Hills (7)

9 Word representing the letter B in the NATO phonetic alphabet (5)

10 Tropical Asian plant with fleshy leaves cultivated for its large, edible rootstock (4)

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14 Daniel —, 1997 World Championships 5,000m gold medallist (5)

15 Genus of plants native to Mexico with bright, showy flowers (6)

16 Brett —, golfer who won the 1990 AGF Open (4)

19 Rafael —, 2008 Wimbledon singles tennis champion (5) 21 and 4 Down

1975 film western starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn (7,7)

22 Owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress (5,7)

See 6 Down

DOWN

1 Barbara —, British sculptress whose works include 1963 bronze Square Forms with Circles (8) 2 Another name for

mother-of-pearl (5)

3 Bill —, actor whose roles include Hephaestus in 2012 action film Wrath of the Titans (5)

4 See 21 Across 5 University city in NW Kyushu, Japan, housing a renovated 16th-century castle (4)

6 and 12 Across

1924 operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg (3,7,6)

7 Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for 1950 drama Cyrano de Bergerac (4,6)

11 Large extinct flightless bird of New Zealand (3)

12 Hardy annual climbing plant whose pods bear round edible seeds (3)

13 Nocturnal bird with large eyes named after its discordant cry (8)

14 Rudyard —, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)

17 Art gallery in Madrid,

Spain (5)

18 Large North American deer also called an elk (5)

20 River rising in Macedonia that flows through Albania to the Adriatic (4)

Crossword ACROSS

DOWN

6 Efficient and 1 At the very moment

methodical (12) that (2,4,2)

8 Place apart (7) 2 Work dough (5)

9 Crowd actor (5) 3 Fire remains (5)

10 Medal? (4) 4 Listening carefully (3,4) 12 Humble or abase 5 Brief satirical theatrical

oneself (6) sketch (4)

14 Temporary road 6 Cause to happen (5,5)

markers (5) 7 One who carries a

15 Street coffin (10)

musician (6) 11 In favour of (3)

16 Otherwise (4) 12 Obtain (3)

19 German 13 Speed of motion (8)

submarine (1-4) 14 One hundred years (7) 21 Cricket delivery (7) 17 Chasm (5)

22 Conductor of 18 Wall painting (5)

a choir (12) 20 Line in darts (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror