FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Site in Perthshire of a Royalist victory over the Covenanters (1644) (10) 6 A Javanese tree of the mulberry family (4) 10 Regional capital in Italy (pop 170,000), with a university founded in 1308 (7) 11 A fabulous animal with a body like a horse and one straight horn (7) 12 Birds of the genus Aramus, akin to the rails (8) 13 The betel-nut genus of palms (5) 15 Old fine due to the lord of the manor on the death of a tenant (6) 17 Country in south-east Asia (127,720 sq miles; pop 30 million), independent since 1957 (8) 19 Small biting or stinging insect that transmits malaria (8) 21 Citizen of a landlocked country in southern Asia (56,827 sq miles; pop 29 million (6) 24 A first-magnitude star in Virgo (5) 25 A star of high luminosity (3,5) 28 Returning upon itself (7) 29 A small iceberg (7) 30 A motherless calf in the United States (4) 31 Fabulous Indian tree that dropped coins when shaken (6-4)

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1 A pith-helmet worn especially in India (4) 2 John __ (c1320 - 95), Scottish poet who wrote The Brus (7) 3 Mountain (13,015 feet) in the Bernese Alps (5) 4 Relating to an opening of a passage or canal (anat) (6) 5 Jean-jacques __ (1712 - 78), Geneva-born philosopher who wrote The Social Contract (1762) (8) 7 A sea-god in Greek mythology (7) 8 The flagship of Columbus’s first expedition to the New World (5,5) 9 Wander about, or digress (8) 14 Kincardineshire-born philosopher (1710 - 96), who founded the Aberdeen Philosophical Society (6,4) 16 Having eyes, or spots like eyes (8) 18 A headman of a Russian village (hist) (8) 20 Lively celebration or party (coll) (7) 22 Ring-shaped, or ring-bearing (7) 23 A slow movement (mus) (6) 26 False notions, or erroneous ways of looking at things (5) 27 A golden-yellow variety of id (4)