FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Town in the north (pop 12,000), the site of the Pictish carved Sueno’s Stone (6) 4 Randall __ (1848 - 1930), Edinburgh-born Archbishop of Canterbury (1903 - 28) (8) 9 Shakespearean term for to oppose or fight against (6) 10 Slow Spanish dance or dance-tune (8) 12 A small civet (5) 13 Monks of a Benedictine order founded in 1313 (9) 14 Any of a large class of organic compounds, including many hormones (7) 15 Annie S __ (1859 - 1943), Scottish novelist who wrote The Gates of Eden (1886) (4) 19 Robert __ (1728 - 92), architect who designed Register House in Edinburgh (4) 21 Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic (309 sq miles; pop 290,000) (7) 24 William M __ (1811 - 63), India-born novelist who wrote Vanity Fair (9) 26 US city on the Missouri river (pop about 450,000), founded in 1854 (5) 27 The corncrake (8) 28 The oyster genus (6) 29 A large spur-winged South American bird

(8) 30 Keeping, or dressing for a holiday (2,4)

DOWN

1 Highland town (pop about 1,500), the site of a ruined 13th-century cathedral (8) 2 A bright yellow flowering plant cultivated mainly for its vegetable oil (8) 3 Large East Indian tree of the daphne family (9) 5 Thorny trees or shrubs bearing spikes or clusters of yellow or white flowers (7) 6 Written decrees of the Sultan of Turkey (5) 7 The upper house of the Irish Republic’s legislature (6) 8 Having knots or swellings (6) 11 Alan __ (1943-98), Edinburgh-born poet who wrote The State of the Nation (4) 16 West coast ferry port (pop about 11,000) (9) 17 A kind of ornamental metallic lacework (8) 18 The shell of a crab, tortoise, etc (8) 20 A line of debris left by a melting glacier (7) 21 County in the west of Ireland (2,084 sq miles; pop 130,000) (4) 22 An ancient writing implement (6) 23 A former county in Wales (6) 25 Alexander __ (1893-1956), Hungarian-born film-maker knighted in 1942 (5)