FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Logierait-born philosopher who wrote A History of Civil Society (1767) (4,8) 8 A shark or dogfish (5) 9 Indian songbirds akin to the weaver-birds (9) 11 Swift-flowing parts of a river (6) 12 Breathe something in (med) (8) 14 The American gluttons (10) 15 Fishing port (pop about 5,000) on the Isle of Man (4) 18 The lioness featuring in a book by Joy Adamson (1960) (4) 19 The middle way between extremes (6,4) 21 Small island country in the Caribbean (290 sq miles; pop about 75,000) (8) 23 Of a luminously brilliant green, yellow, pink or orange (6) 25 Drink made of beer and cider in equal measures (9) 26 The son of Abraham, one of the three

patriarchs of the Israelites (5) 27 Aggressiveorwarlikebehaviour(12)

DOWN

1 A citadel, especially that of Athens (9) 2 City in South Dakota (pop about 30,000), founded in 1881 (8) 3 The fibres of the plant Linum, woven into linen cloth (4) 4 Places near the shore where ships may ride at anchor (10) 5 The Muse of astronomy in Geek mythology (6) 6 City in southern Japan with a metropolitan population of over 19 million (5) 7 Edinburgh-born painter and etcher (1783 1844) (6,6) 10 University town in South Africa (pop about 150,000), founded in 1679 (12) 13 Flowing out from a narrow passage or confined place (10) 16 A large shallow lake or marsh (9) 17 An attack on the rights of others (8) 20 Heat in order to fix colours on, as glass (6) 22 A measure of five “hundreds” of herring, varying from 500 to 630 (5) 24 A fence of stakes set in a stream for

catching fish (4)