Mirror Quiz Crossword November 9 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• City in Russia on the Volga River NE of Moscow
  YAROSLAVL
• & 18D Spanish road cyclist; 1973 Tour de France winner (4,5)
  LUIS
• Bernardo —, president of Chile from 1817-23
  OHIGGINS
• & 21A Neil Simon stage comedy; 1965 Tony Award Best Play nominee (3,3,6)
  THEODD
• Welsh town north-east of Swansea housing a ruined castle
  NEATH
• Asmir —, Chelsea and Bosnia-Herzegovina goalkeeper
  BEGOVIC
• Fish of North and Central America such as the Longnose — or Spotted —
  GAR
• France fullback who scored a hat-trick against Namibia in the 1999 Rugby World Cup
  UGOMOLA
• Edmund —, 18th-century Dublin-born statesman who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France
  BURKE
• See 10 Across
  COUPLE
• La —, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli first performed in 1876
  GIOCONDA
• Large desert in E Asia
  GOBI
• Author of novels Enduring Love and The Cement Garden
  IANMCEWAN

DOWN

• Radioactive metallic element; symbol Pu
  PLUTONIUM
• The —, nickname of Irish and Venezuelan political leaders Daniel O’Connell and Simon Bolivar
  LIBERATOR
• Positive electrode in an electrolytic cell
  ANODE
• Laurence —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The Boys from Brazil
  OLIVIER
• Racing toboggan on which riders lie supine
  LUGE
• John —, British mathematician who conceived a diagram that used circles to represent sets and their relationships
  VENN
• Genus of dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period
  OVIRAPTOR
• Large genus of tropical American succulent plants with showy rosettes of basal leaves
  ECHEVERIA
• Cry of a sheep
  BAA
• Evelyn —, Scottish percussionist and Grammy-winner awarded a DBE in 2007
  GLENNIE
• See 8 Across
  OCANA
• Former unit of currency of Italy
  LIRA
• 1979 film drama starring Ray Winstone and Mick Ford
  SCUM