DIVERSIONS

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

Puzzle No 1581

Clues across

1. Rawene and Kohukohu are settlements on which New Zealand harbour? (8)

7. Carmen Miranda brought what music to a global audience? (5)

8. What is a deficit in a bank account caused by taking out too much? (9)

9. What unit of energy is named from a Greek word for “work”? (3)

10. Octothorp is the technical name for what symbol? (4)

11. Who oversees the preparation of content for a printed publication? (6)

13. Who was the first person to win an Oscar playing an Oscar winner – in The Aviator? (4,9)

15/16. Although he published only 13 poems during his lifetime, who gave the language “far from the madding crowd” and “ignorance is bliss”? (6,4)

18. Used in making mortar, what from a volcano is pozzolana? (3)