Daily Mirror - 19.08.2019

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ACROSS

1 Sheep’s cry (5)

4 Spoor (5)

7 Body of water (3)

9 Mortal (6)

11 Chinese dynasty (4)

12 Desire (3)

13 Orchestra

member (7)

15 Rumour (7)

18 Inferior (3)

19 Retain (4)

20 Sign up (6)

23 Take to court (3)

24 Evade (5)

25 Whinny (5)

DOWN

1 Wild West

criminal (5,3,3)

2 Burnt matter (3)

3 Beverage (3)

5 Legal defence (5)

6 Lamp

activator (5,6)

8 Succulent

with soothing

properties (4)

10 Metal (3)

13 Lettuce (3)

14 Put down (3)

16 In front (5)

17 Eras (4)

18 Hawaiian

garland (3)

21 Convent woman (3)

22 Man’s name (3)

ACROSS

1 Complain at broken

table (5)

4 Follow with right scent (5)

7 Lose argument about

the Baltic, say (3)

9 Allow Harold

to be deadly (6)

11 Mix without the French

ruling family (4)

12 Yearning for currency (3)

13 Room first for musician (7)

15 Gossip has year

to develop (7)

18 Clowns get depressed (3)

19 Maintain part of castle (4)

20 Listen out and enrol (6)

23 Prosecute a woman (3)

24 Venetian prince has

daughter to avoid (5)

25 Negative response

heard from horse (5)

DOWN

1 Young goat

is an outlaw (5,3,3)

2 Lashed around tree (3)

3 Drink of character, say (3)

5 A party has one excuse (5)

6 Trivial exchange used to

dispel darkness (5,6)

8 Beer gets nothing

from plant (4)

10 Hitting with can (3)

13 Produce island

broadcast (3)

14 Secular place (3)

16 A dean is leading (5)

17 Sage cultivated

for a long time (4)

18 Flowers in sleigh (3)

21 No-one sounds

as devout as her (3)

22 Shelter from sleet (3)

Quizword & Crossword

Quizword

Crossword

Cryptic clues

Quick clues

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ACROSS

1 and 5 Down

1983 Bill Forsyth

comedy-drama film

starring Peter Riegert,

Denis Lawson and

Burt Lancaster (5,4)

4 Nafissatou —, 2016

Olympic heptathlon

gold medallist (5)

10 and 26 Faint

very dense star

such as Sirius B

or Wolf 489 (5,5)

11 Elaine —, 1956

Tony Award Best

Featured Actress

in a Play nominee

for Bus Stop (7)

12 Monty Python member

who wrote the book of

Broadway musical

Spamalot (4,4)

13 Ancient kingdom in the

Old Testament east

of the Dead Sea (4)

15 Larry —, actor

who played JR Ewing

in US television

series Dallas (6)

17 Verne —, late actor

who played Mini-Me in

1999 film comedy

Austin Powers: The Spy

Who Shagged Me (6)

19 Bertie —, winger;

Birmingham City

1963 Football League

Cup Final and Celtic

1967 European Cup

Final winner (4)

20 James A —, originator

of the game of

basketball (8)

23 In music, a group

of three equal notes

played in a time value

of two or four (7)

24 Category of black tea

grown in the Wuyi

Mountains, China (5)

25 24th letter in the

Greek alphabet (5)

26 See 10 Across

DOWN

2 Divock —, Belgium

and Liverpool FC

forward (5)

3 and 7 2001 film

comedy starring

Julia Roberts, Billy

Crystal and Catherine

Zeta-Jones (8,11)

5 See 1 Across

6 Lysette —, actress

whose played Lyssa

in 1983 adventure

film Krull (7)

7 See 3 Down

8 N J —, New Zealand

Test cricketer who

made 222 against

England in

Christchurch

in 2002 (5)

9 and 18 Harold Pinter

stage play premiered

in London

in 1958 (3,8,5)

14 Medieval weapon

that shoots projectiles

called quarrels (8)

16 Terry —, director of

films Time Bandits

and Jabberwocky (7)

18 See 9 Down

21 In Greek mythology,

the fluid said to

flow in the veins

of the gods (5)

22 Terrestrial

gastropod mollusc

with an absent or

reduced shell (4)

ACROSS

1 Opposite

side of heads (5)

4 Serious and solemn (5)

10 Precise (5)

11 Vehicle used

on icy roads (7)

12 Supporter, disciple (8)

13 Stern (4)

15 Meal (6)

17 Long tapering flag (6)

19 Fever (4)

20 Act of retaliation (8)

23 Band of broadcasting

frequencies (7)

24 Egresses (5)

25 Hard mineral (5)

26 Willow (5)

DOWN

2 Be of use (5)

3 Set free (3,5)

5 Surprise

visit by police (4)

6 Old soldier (7)

7 Artistic or

dramatic

production (11)

8 Concur (5)

9 Make an

activity illegal (11)

14 Intrepid (8)

16 Bird’s

feathers (7)

18 Kingdom (5)

21 Backbone (5)

22 Jealousy (4)

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PUZZLES

BOX1: What

relation was Queen

Victoria to Prince

Albert before

their marriage?

First cousin (A)

Second cousin (E)

Third cousin (T)

BOX2: In which

country was the

series Game of

Thrones primarily

filmed?

Northern Ireland (S)

Croatia (O)

Iceland (L)

BOX3: Nomophobia

is the fear of what?

Number 13 (M)

Clowns (K)

No mobile

phone access (A)

BOX4: Aladdin

is a variety of

which of these

vegetables?

Turnip (C)

Potato (S)

Onion (E)

BOX5: What

name is given

to the target

in a game

of curling?

Stone (D)

Delta (S)

House (H)

BOX6: A keffiyeh

is worn on

which part

of the body?

Head (A)

Foot (N)

Arm (B)

BOX7: In what year

was the Labour

Party formed?

1898 (E)

1900 (Y)

1903 (I)

BOX8: The nymph

Daphne became a

laurel tree escaping

which Greek God?

Zeus (F)

Ares (G)

Apollo (I)

BOX9: From which

African country

does football

player Emmanuel

Adebayor (pictured)

hail?

Ivory Coast (A)

Ghana (R)

Togo (C)

BOX10: Which

former Friends

actress stars in

The Comeback?

Courteney Cox (H)

Lisa Kudrow (E)

Jennifer Aniston (Z)

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