Quizword & Crossword

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

QUIZWORD CLUES ACROSS

1 John —, English actor married to Neve

Campbell until 2011 (5) 7 Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (8) 8 Kathy —, author of 1984 novel Blood and Guts in High School (5)

10 Shrub of Mexico and Central America with showy scarlet bracts (10) 12 Terence —, author of stage plays French Without Tears and Separate Tables (8) 14 Katarina —, 1988

Olympic figure skating gold medallist (4)

16 River upon which Taunton, Somerset, stands (4)

17 1980 film drama starring Robert Redford and Yaphet Kotto (8)

20 1965 sci-fi film directed by Jean-luc Godard starring

Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution (10) 23 Philippine plant related to the banana whose leafstalks are the source of Manila hemp (5)

24 1991 European Eventing Championships individual gold medallist (3,5)

25 and 2 Down Clerk in 1850 Charles

Dickens novel David Copperfield (5,4)

DOWN

1 P J —, England Test cricketer who took a hat-trick against West Indies in Leeds in 1957 (6) 2 See 25 Across 3 Sammy —, lyricist who won a Best Original Song Oscar for Three Coins in a Fountain (4) 4 John —, 2003 World Championships 200m gold medallist (5)

5 BBC TV drama-comedy series that ran from 2003-15 featuring the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open

Case Squad of the Metropolitan

Police Service (3,6) 6 Humphrey —, Best

Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for The African Queen (6)

9 1998 action film starring Robert De Niro and

Jean Reno (5)

11 Tree of southern Europe also called the umbrella pine and Italian — (5,4) 13 Port in SW Scotland housing the

Wallace Tower (3)

15 River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after which a severe infectious viral disease is named (5)

16 Servant of Lucentio in William Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew (6)

18 Largest city in

Saudi Arabia (6)

19 Russell —, television arts presenter and chat show host who died in 1988 (5) 21 Inscription placed over the head of

Christ head during the Crucifixion (inits) 22 — Handicap, flat race run at York in August last won by Nakeeta in 2017 (4)