Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers October 12 2017

Clue	Solution
Bowed stringed instrument associated with musicians Lionel Tertis and Emanuel Vardi	VIOLA
Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal	HAMILCAR
John —, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn	KEATS
1879 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera subtitled The Slave of Duty	THEPIRATES
Fulke —, poet and dramatist; Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1614-21	GREVILLE
Paul —, Swiss artist whose works include 1928’s Cat and Bird	KLEE
In computing, a group of bits processed as a single unit of data	BYTE
1973 film drama starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek	BADLANDS
Sacred book of Islam	KORAN
— 1, unmanned spacecraft sent to Mars by NASA in 1975	VIKING
Another name for a Latvian	LETT
1931 novel by E F Benson	MAPP
Tall pointed cleft cap worn by a Christian bishop	MITRE
Colourless hydrocarbon gas used in welding and lighting	ACETYLENE
Marine fish of tropical and temperate seas with thick lips and a bright coloration	WRASSE
The —, 1921 film drama starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role	SHEIK
Carnivorous arthropod with a body of between 15 and 190 segments	CENTIPEDE
Unit of length of yarn usually 80 yards for wool, 120 yards for cotton and silk and 300 yards for linen	LEA
Gaston —, Austrian engineer who founded a company in 1963 that now makes firearms	GLOCK
City and capital of Madhya Pradesh, India	BHOPAL
Natural earth containing ferric oxide used as a pigment	SIENNA
Tom —, tinker in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream	SNOUT
Martin —, author of novels Yellow Dog and Other People	AMIS
1950s political movement in Cyprus led by Georgeios Grivas	EOKA