Quizword & Crossword
Two sets of clues, two different answers – all on the same grid. Choose one or the other.
Quizword ACROSS
1 Industrial city in Nord, France; medieval capital of Flanders (5) 7 1999 film drama starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle (8) 8 Shrub with fragrant violet, pink or white flowers (5)
10 Town in County Durham, England, on the North Sea south-east of Durham (10)
12 Pacific Ocean atoll taken by the US from Japan in 1944 that later became a testing ground for atomic weapons (8)
14 and 19 Down
1975 stage play by Stephen Poliakoff (4,5) 16 Semiaquatic mammal whose fur is highly valued (4)
17 Variety of the mineral actinolite; one of two minerals called jade (8) 20 Desperate creature in Lewis Carroll’s poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark (6,4)
23 and 6 Down
Welsh fashion designer who died in 1985 (5,6) 24 Ultimate battle between the gods and the forces of evil in Scandinavian mythology (8)
25 Bo —, actress who played Jane Parker in 1981 adventure film Tarzan, the Ape Man (5)
DOWN
1 Beatrice —, actress who played Mrs Meers in 1967 comedy-musical film Thoroughly Modern Millie (6)
2 First wife of Jacob in
the Old Testament (4) 3 Immanuel —, German idealist philosopher who died in 1804 (4)
4 Carmelita —, 2011 World Championships 100m gold medallist (5)
5 Mouse puppet created by Maria Perego in 1959 whose television credits include The Ed Sullivan Show (4,5)
6 See 23 Across 9 Tapered log tossed in an event at a modern Highland Games (5)
11 Lake —, body of water in Wisconsin, US drained by the Fox River (9)
13 Monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Swedish krona (3)
15 One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint (5)
16 Lee —, actor who played the title role in US television series The Six Million Dollar Man (6)
18 Chris —, WBO Super Middleweight champion from 1991-95 (6)
19 See 14 Across
21 2001 biopic starring Johnny Depp as George Jung (4)
22 1993 romcom starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver (4)