Quiz Challenge

1. António Guterres has held which high-level international role since 2017?

2. Ronnie O’Sullivan defeated which player to win the 2023 snooker UK Championship, in York?

3. The saliva from cave swifts is used for which Chinese dish?

4. Which letter of the alphabet is the prefix of aircraft registration codes in the UK? Galician, Catalan and Basque are languages spoken in which country? 5.

6. Actresses Susannah York, Ruth Wilson and Samantha Morton have all portrayed which literary heroine on screen?

7. What do the initials OPEC represent?

In the TV quiz show The Chase, how many ‘chasers’ are available to compete?

9. Which painting technique consists of small, distinct dots of colour applied in patterns to form an image?

10. According to the song Hotel California, you can check-out but never... what? 8.

ACROSS

Here are two miniature five-square crosswords using the same grid – but the letters have been mixed up. You have to work out which letters belong to which crossword.

5. Stella’s content to give information (4)

7. No estimate prepared for flat (10)

8. Pleasant but not hot in the recess (4)

9. Held back when others ruled the country, we hear (10)

12. Widow or rebel leader with priest on court (6)

13. Agricultural school? (6)

14. A snatch of music in E sharp, oddly enough! (6)

16. Prank created by father swirling oil about (6)

17. Men not starting the singing – that’s charming (10)

20. Rode about on the river (4)

21. Say clearly that it is jointed (10)

22. One with old-fashioned object of love (4)

DOWN

Place the four signs (add, subtract, multiply, divide) one in each circle so that the total of each across and down line is the same.

1. Swami rejected the part of Muslim prince (4)

2. Writings about one young lady (4)

3. Really can fit badly (2,4)

4. Number in southern church creating a stink (6)

5. Would such a newcomer find walking painful? (10)

6. Power of moving possessed by an engine (10)

10. Uniform passed – just (4-6)

11. Sideways attempt first said to be involving three sides (10)

15. Used to employ quote to arouse (6)

16. Frank first hurried to establishment in the country (6)

18. Republicans have a question in Asian country (4)

19. Unending elegy turned into a song of joy (4)