Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers December 23 2017

Clue	Solution
Queen of Lydia in Greek myth	OMPHALE
1977 Woody Allen film starring Diane Keaton	ANNIE
Opening through the Alps south of Innsbruck along the border between Italy and Austria	BRENNER
Chief city of Boeotia in ancient Greece destroyed by Alexander the Great	THEBES
Shortened name of an acute viral disease that especially affects children	POLIO
Lake east of the Caspian Sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan	ARALSEA
2005 family film starring Frankie Muniz and David Spade	RACING
William —, English engraver whose works include A Rake’s Progress	HOGARTH
2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic men’s 100m and 200m gold medallist	USAIN
US golfer; winner of The Open Championship in 1998	MARKOMEARA
1999 novel by Thomas Harris	HANNIBAL
Town and administrative headquarters of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council	LEEK
Cross with a loop on the top that often appears in Egyptian personal names	ANKH
Sue —, author of novels Enlightenment and Up the Garden Path	LIMB
Noel Coward stage play that opened on Broadway, New York, in 1925	EASYVIRTUE
Giant in folklore who, with Gog, survived the destruction of their race by Brutus	MAGOG
Highly seasoned smoked beef prepared from a shoulder cut	PASTRAMI
Johnny —, singer-actor who co-starred in 1971 film Western A Gunfight	CASH
Andrew —, journalist and broadcaster on This Week and Sunday Politics	NEIL