QUIZWORD

Clues across

1. What small hammer is used by an auctioneer? (5) 4. What word on music means “in slow time”? (6) 9. Which business magazine was founded in 1929 by Time co-founder Henry Luce? (7) 10. What country borders the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden? (5) 11. Strabismus affects what part of the body? (4) 12. What was the nickname of the world’s only fertile female black robin in 1980? (3,4) 13. What is a humorous play on words? (3) 14/16 In 1952, who became the first British singer to have a No 1 hit in the US? (4,4) 18. What is a female rabbit? (3) 20. Who is the reigning Emperor of Japan? (7) 21. Which Chinese dynasty ruled from c1046-256 BC? (4) 24. What was the first capital city of Italy? (5) 25. What is a patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable? (7) 26. What metal tool shapes or enlarges holes? (6) 27. What is a written direction of a court? (5)

Clues down

1. What is the chief electrician on a film set? (6) 2. What is a grass edging by the side of a road? (5) 3. From Latin, what is to praise highly? (4) 5. What breed of sheep with a lot of coarse wool originated in New Zealand in 1931? (8) 6. What traditional ensemble in Indonesia includes many bronze percussion instruments? (7) 7. A pound weight is 16 what? (6) 8. What small carpenter’s saw has a strong brass or steel back for precise work? (5) 13. What card game is also known as Solitaire? (8) 15. Which country gained independence in 1993 after a long war with Ethiopia? (7) 17. What is the musical director of a choir? (6) 18/19 Prominent during the disco era of the late 1970s, who won Grammys for Last Dance and four other songs? (5,6) 22. In the Bible, which king ordered the beheading of John the Baptist? (5) 23. What is the capital of Norway? (4)