FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Archaic term for an ape or monkey (10) 9 Small capital city (pop about 37,000) in the south-central Pacific (4) 10 Type of pottery with a metallic glaze (10) 11 An order admitting of no opposition (6) 12 A genus of fish akin to the tarpon (5) 15 System of Soviet forced labour camps (5) 18 Small birds of the Mergus genus (5) 19 Town in Switzerland (pop 16,000), close to

the border with Italy (7) 20 State capital in south-east Nigeria (pop

about 750,000) (5) 21 An arbitrary decree from any source (5) 22 Standard-bearers at the riding of the

marches (7) 23 Nickname for a badger (5) 24 Large African country (390,120 sq miles; pop about 95 million), declared a republic in 1953 (5) 26 Dr __ , pseudonym for US author of

children’s books (5) 29 The most sacred part of a temple (6) 31 Genus of orchids of diverse types (10) 32 A squirrel’s nest (4) 33 Character in Alice in Wonderland (10)

DOWN

2 The cuckoo-pint or wake-robin genus (4) 3 A long single-edged samurai sword (6) 4 Dialect word for a fist (5) 5 Greek philosopher (429 - 347 BC), who founded the Academy in Athens (5) 6 Drags or wheel-less structures for carrying goods (5) 7 Archaic term for a druggist or pharmacist (100 8 Producing a milky juice (10) 13 A dormer window, especially in a church spire (7) 14 The son of Zeus and Danae in Greek mythology (6) 15 Large stoneware jugs for holding liquor (10) 16 White corpuscles of the blood or lymph (10) 17 Christoph __ (1714 - 87), German composer who created the opera Alceste (1756) (5) 18 A pickling liquid (5) 25 The rim of a brilliant-cut diamond (6) 26 A fish of or akin to the salmon family (5) 27 Useful or advantageous (5) 28 Sam __ (1912 -2002), US golfer who won seven majors (5) 30 David __ (1711 - 76), Edinburgh-born philosopher who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature (6)