Diversions & Puzzles

Puzzle No 1451 Clues across

6. Which English city is on the site of Isca Dumnoniorum, a town built by the Romans? (6) 7. What is the oldest bridge across the Grand Canal in Venice? (6) 10. What do residents of The Hague call their city? (3,4) 11. What is the spiked revolving disc on a horse rider’s spur? (5) 12. What is slang for a police informer? (4) 13. What does a pteridologist study? (5) 16. Who is the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon? (5) 17. Who was president of Yugoslavia 1953-1980? (4) 20. Created in 1908, what laundry soap powder was a market leader until the mid1970s? (5) 21. What fruit-filled rolled pastry is associated with Austria? (7) 22. In which 1950 film is James Stewart’s character’s best friend a six-foot-three-anda-half-inch-tall invisible rabbit? (6) 23. Where is hometown for Hugh Laurie, Stephen Hawking and PD James? (6)

Clues down

1. What is Felix Mendelssohn’s most frequently played composition known as? (7,5) 2. What anthropomorphic red fox features in fables? (7) 3. Which US state produces the most wool? (5) 4. What brownish-yellow gemstone is sometimes called lemon quartz? (7) 5. In 1806 with whiteface makeup, Joseph Grimaldi created a new type of what? (5) 8. “Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace” begins which Beatles song? (2-2-2,2-2-2) 9. Which poet wrote “Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental”? (5,4) 14. Which French city is known for its medieval and Renaissance enamels on copper and its 19th-century porcelain? (7) 15. What wide tie knot is thought to have been invented by King George V? (7) 18. What trap for birds or small mammals often has a slip noose? (5) 19. What is a person authorised to act for another? (5)