The Crossword Solver

Mirror Quiz Crossword January 9 2023 Answers

• Clifford —, author of the stage plays Waiting for Lefty and Clash by Night
  ODETS
• Preserved county in SE Wales
  GWENT
• Japanese verse form in 17 syllables
  HAIKU
• Percy —, presenter of BBC TV programme Gardeners’ World from 1969-76
  THROWER
• 1993 film drama starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel
  THEPIANO
• Paul Gustave —, 19th-century French illustrator of works by Rabelais
  DORE
• London Underground line coloured yellow on the Tube map
  CIRCLE
• The —, 2005 novel by John Grisham
  BROKER
• Island in the Inner Hebrides; site of an abbey founded by St Columba
  IONA
• Forward section of a missile, aircraft or rocket
  NOSECONE
• Bone of the leg also called a patella
  KNEECAP
• Group or set of 20
  SCORE
• Tree whose leaves are attached by long flattened stalks so that they quiver in the wind
  ASPEN
• J C —, England Test cricketer who took 10-53 and 9-37 against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956
  LAKER

• 2005 novel by James Sallis
  DRIVE
• Metal censer suspended from chains in which incense is burnt during church services
  THURIBLE
• River that flows into Morecambe Bay at Fleetwood
  WYRE
• & 16D Ice hockey team; 1994 Stanley Cup Final winners (3,4,7)
  NEWYORK
• 2004 film comedy starring Shawn and Marlon Wayans
  WHITECHICKS
• Jule —, composer of the music for Broadway musicals Gypsy and Hallelujah, Baby!
  STYNE
• Small songbird with a curved bill, such as UK resident the common —
  TREECREEPER
• The —, 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat
  CRUELSEA
• See 6 Down
  RANGERS
• William —, WBA Middleweight champion from 1996-97
  JOPPY
• Colourless gas formed by an electric discharge in water
  OZONE
• Skin disorder caused by inflammation of the glands found chiefly in adolescents
  ACNE