Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword
ACROSS
1 Francis —, Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2005-07 (5)
7 US actor who played Lu Ren in 2018 action film Tomb Raider (6,2) 8 Jean-pierre —, actor who starred as Antoine Doinel in a series of films including 1959’s The 400 Blows (5)
10 1991 novel by
Elmore Leonard (7,3)
12 2011 novel by
Josephine Cox (8)
14 Alan —, stand-up comedian whose television credits include Celebrity
Ding Dong and The Singer Takes It All (4) 16 Old Testament army captain who put Absalom to death (4) 17 Jupp —, coach of football club Bayern Munich from 2017-18 (8) 20 Cephalopod mollusc with a broad flattened body that produces a brown pigment (10) 23 Leonhard —, 18th-century mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation (5) 24 Max —, entertainer and actor who starred in 1961 film drama Spare the Rod (8)
25 Choral musical composition such as 1791 W A Mozart work Ave verum corpus (5)
DOWN
1 Village in North Yorkshire north-west of Ilkley noted for — Tarn and — Cove (6) 2 Musical percussion instrument consisting of a membrane stretched over a shell (4) 3 Pen name of H H Munro, author of
1914 short story collection Beasts and Super-beasts (4)
4 Close-textured fabric of cotton, silk or spun rayon woven with lengthwise ribs (5)
5 Name by which the New Zealand national rugby union team is known (3,6)
6 Large tidal estuary in northern England formed by the Rivers Ouse and Trent (6)
9 and 16 Broadcaster who chaired BBC TV panel show
Juke Box Jury from 1959-67 (5,6)
11 Point after deuce
in tennis (9)
13 Port in central
Vietnam; former capital of the kingdom of Annam (3) 15 Mediterranean plant with liquorice-flavoured aromatic seeds (5)
16
18 The —, 2008 action film starring Gabriel Macht in the title role (6)
19 Metropolitan city in South Korea on the Taehwa River (5)
21 Wingless blood-sucking insect noted for its power of leaping (4)
22 2011 adventure film with Asa Butterfield in the title role (4)
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Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Hard part
of bread (5)
7 Apply paint
or wallpaper to (8) 8 Destroys (5)
10 Fashionable
celebrities (10)
12 Short rest
period at work (3,5) 14 Labyrinth (4)
16 Knock
senseless (4)
17 Old soldiers (8)
20 Bashful or
modest (10)
23 Afterwards (5)
24 Cosmetic item (8) 25 Opposite side
of heads (5)
DOWN
1 Cone-shaped wafer
for ice cream (6)
2 Ballad, tune (4)
3 Amount owed (4)
4 Fails to win (5)
5 Twin-hulled
vessel (9)
6 Next to (6)
9 Drink noisily (5)
11 Soaks (9)
13 Beer type (3)
15 Insurgent (5)
16 Senior nurse (6)
18 Thigh-length
trousers (6)
19 Weird (5)
21 Prayer ending (4) 22 Information (4)