Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers July 10 2017

Clue	Solution
Simon —, member of boy band Blue; contestant on 2014 BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing	WEBBE
Tropical evergreen tree whose dried flower buds are used as a spice	CLOVE
Ancient city state on the coast of North Africa founded by Phoenician traders	CARTHAGE
Uncastrated male pig	BOAR
Elongated marine fish such as the Common — with a sucking disc on the top of its head	REMORA
Island of Greece in the Saronic Gulf south of Salamis	AEGINA
Island in the Inner Hebrides; site of an abbey founded by St Columba	IONA
Symmetrical curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side	PARABOLA
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich —, German idealist philosopher who died in 1831	HEGEL
Gunter —, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature	GRASS
Leonhard —, 18th-century mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation	EULER
Town and administrative headquarters of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council	LEEK
D L —, New Zealand Test cricketer who took 5-69 against England at Lord’s in 2008	VETTORI
Victor —, rugby union prop; 1992 England Test debutant against Canada	UBOGU
2000 film thriller starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson	UNBREAKABLE
Figure of speech in which an expression applied to one thing is used to designate another	METAPHOR
Round cap with a flap at the back worn by hunters	MONTERO
Daniel Francois —, prime minister of South Africa from 1948-54	MALAN
Regulatory agency set up in 1986 to oversee the British Gas Corporation	OFGAS
Small young herring usually prepared and canned in Norway	SILD