Mirror Quiz Crossword January 16 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• 1998 animated film based on a Chinese legend whose title character is voiced by Ming-Na Wen
  MULAN
• Tree native to Western Australia whose wood is used for furniture making
  MARRI
• Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye
  ALOHA
• & 23A Area of reclaimed land in Lazio, central Italy (7,7)
  PONTINE
• Former name of Bujumbura, capital of Burundi
  USUMBURA
• — Handicap, flat race run at York in August over 14 furlongs
  EBOR
• Capital of Angola
  LUANDA
• Name of God in Judaism
  YAHWEH
• Aromatic Eurasian plant whose leaves are used for flavouring in pickles
  DILL
• Anthony —, Foreign Secretary from 1976-77
  CROSLAND
• See 11 Across
  MARSHES
• Capital of Egypt
  CAIRO
• Al —, US motor racing driver; 1987 Indianapolis 500 winner
  UNSER
• Fast powerful overhead stroke in tennis
  SMASH

DOWN

• Island in Samoa; chief town Apia
  UPOLU
• 1859 George Eliot novel featuring the character Hetty Sorrel
  ADAMBEDE
• River that flows through Florence, Italy
  ARNO
• The —, 1915 novel by D H Lawrence
  RAINBOW
• Author of the 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter that resulted in the occupation of Boston by the British Army
  SAMUELADAMS
• Johanna —, Swiss author of 1881 children’s book Heidi
  SPYRI
• Solid figure with four plane triangular faces
  TETRAHEDRON
• Genus of tropical American plants of the nightshade family whose fruits contain many seeds
  CAPSICUM
• Flap hinged to the trailing edge of an aircraft wing
  AILERON
• Port in Finistere, France; a major naval station of the country
  BREST
• Hardy —, dressmaker by appointment to Queen Elizabeth II who founded his own fashion house in 1946
  AMIES
• Elisabeth —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Leaving Las Vegas
  SHUE