FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

HUGH JOHNSON

ACROSS

1 US state (2,057 sq miles; pop about 800,000), nicknamed the First State (8) 5 Joseph __ (1857 - 1942), Polish-born novelist who wrote Lord Jim (1900) (6) 9 Small village in Wester Ross, a popular tourist centre (8) 10 Sir Thomas __ (1850 - 1931), retailer who built a large grocery store chain (6) 12 A yellow-flowered umbelliferous plant, allied to dill (6) 13 A very hard mineral, a variety of corundum (5) 16 Corn marigolds (6) 17 A plant with four petals arranged as a cross (8) 20 A rich patron of art or literature (8) 21 Spanish-speaking community or district (6) 23 Ruth’ s mother-in-law in the old testament

(5) 25 A flowering shrub of the Rhododendron

family (6) 28 An alloy of copper and zinc or tin, etc, imitating gold (6) 29 Sir Edwin Henry __ (1802 - 73), Londonborn artist (8) 30 Animals of a large South American species of the weasel family (6) 31 Sir Joshua __ (1723 - 94), a Devon-born portrait painter (8)

DOWN

1 The chief magistrate of Venice from about 697to1797(4) 2 A large European species of dormouse (4) 3 The American glutton, or its fur (9) 4 Jean __ (1639 - 99), French dramatist who wrote Phedre (1677) (6) 6 A diagonal rib of a vault (archit) (5) 7 Ernest __ (1871 - 1937), physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908) (10) 8 A riotous assembly (10) 11 The plants of a particular region, habitat, etc (5) 14 Doctor (1897 - 1973), the first Professor of Neurological Surgery at Edinburgh University (6,4) 15 The scientific study of the moon (10) 18 A form of type having a heavy face (9) 19 A monitor lizard (5) 22 African capital city (pop about 1.6 million),

founded in 1890 (6) 24 The Hindu god of the firmament and of

rain (5) 26 A dark greenish-blue colour (4( 27 The god of war in Greek mythology (4)