The Irish Mail on Sunday

Hidden within the grid are answers to these 20 clues

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1 An Austringer is a person who hunts with which creature?

2 St Andrew’s Road, Anderson Bridge and Raffles Boulevard are all sections of the Formula One Grand Prix track in which country?

3 Which animal is known as River Horse?

4 In the painting The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci, who is said to be seated on the right-hand side of Jesus?

5 El Draque was the Spanish nickname of which English sea captain and privateer?

6 In the Jewish calendar, what is the third month of the religious year called?

7 According to the well known phrase, if ‘silence is golden’ what is speech?

8 Pearl Jem is a tribute band to which well known band?

9 Which is the fifth largest country in the world by area?

10 US actor Carlos Irwin Estevez is better known by what name?

11 Thermophob­ia is the abnormal fear of what?

12 A square knot is another term for which type of knot?

13 Acute coryza is a medical term for which common complaint?

14 Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was elected prime minister of which country in March 2004?

15 Who recorded the 1965 song Eve Of Destructio­n, a protest song against the Vietnam War?

16 In humans the atlas and axis bones are in which part of the body?

17 A polyglot is someone who uses or knows several what?

18 Sastrugi are parallel wave-like ridges caused by winds on the surface of what?

19 In 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard became the first climbers to reach the summit of which European mountain?

20 Which female gymnast won gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise events in the 1972 Summer Olympics?

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