Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Capital of Surinam (10) 8 Short, easy to hit delivery in cricket (4,3) 9 Indian musical instrument with movable frets (5) 10 Bjarne —, Danish cyclist; 1996 Tour de France winner (4) 11 Westernmost of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of southwest Alaska, US (4) 12 Unit of area equal to 100 square metres (3) 14 Willy —, 2000-08 France defender; 2014-16 Bordeaux football coach (6)
15 and 23 James Bond villain played by Adolfo Celi in 1965 action film Thunderball (6,5) 18 Global governing body of cricket (1,1,1) 20 Nest of a squirrel (4) 21 Biblical character murdered by his brother Cain (4)
23 See 15 Across 24 Angus —, chairman of BBC TV panel game Have I Got News For You from 1990-2002 (7) 25 Dramatist; author of ITV’s The Beiderbecke Trilogy and BBC TV series Trinity Tales (4,6)
DOWN
1 R T —, Australia Test cricketer who made 196 against England in Brisbane in 2006 (7) 2 Chief coal mining and industrial region of Germany (4) 3 Capital of Mozambique (6) 4 2001 novel by Christopher Hart (6,2) 5 Francois —, 2009-10 WBF Heavyweight champion (5)
6 City in Tennessee, US, home to the Austin Peay State University (11) 7 2006 film drama starring Samuel L Jackson and Julianne Moore (11) 13 Capital of the British Virgin Islands (4,4) 16 Large marine decapod crustacean with edible flesh (7) 17 Market town in Cumbria on the River Kent (6) 19 Patricia Highsmith novel first published in 1951 as The Price of Salt under pseudonym Claire Morgan (5) 22 Immanuel —, German idealist philosopher who died in 1804 (4)
Crossword ACROSS
1 Satisfactory (10) 8 Unusually large (7) 9 Item worn around the neck (5) 10 Competition round (4) 11 Touch (4)
12 Take to court (3) 14 Common vipers (6) 15 Machine-gun troops from the air (6) 18 Lawn condensation (3) 20 Heinous (4) 21 Betting chances (4) 23 Relating to sound (5) 24 Closest (7) 25 Translates orally (10)
DOWN
1 Aid worn by a non-swimmer (7) 2 Traffic marker (4) 3 Favour (6) 4 Complete (8) 5 Jumps (5) 6 Continually (5,3,3) 7 Inevitably (2,9) 13 Macabre (8) 16 Speak formally to (7) 17 Abduct (6) 19 Broaden (5) 22 Savoury meat spread (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror