FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A large military complex in the Highlands completed in 1769 (4,6) 6 A type of luncheon meat, made of pork, spices, etc (4) 10 A French wooden shoe (5) 11 Small white composite found in the Alps (9) 12 Character in Twelfth Night (6) 13 Relating to little rounded lumps (7) 15 Give a job or a piece of work to someone (6) 16 Genus of flowering plants native to tropical and warm temperate regions (8) 19 Port, and former royal burgh, on the east coast (pop about 20,000) (8) 21 Native American tribe settled in Oklahoma (6) 24 An ill-timed remark or comment (7) 26 Charles __ (1864 - 1941), Alford-born poet who wrote The Whistle (6) 28 A German dance in 2-4 time (9) 29 South American country (291,930 sq miles; pop about 18 million), independent since 1818 (5) 30 Old stringed instrument shaped like half a pear (4) 31 __ Tower, a fortified beacon in Dumfriesshire built in the 16th century (10)

DOWN

1 Ruined castle in Berwickshire, the Wolf’s Crag of Scott’s the Bride of Lammermuir (4) 2 John __ (1782 - 1868), Neilston-born engineer who built the engine of the Comet (9) 3 Richard __ (1818 - 1903), American inventor of a rapid-fire gun (7) 4 The king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature (6) 5 Town on the Clyde (pop about 44,0000), once a major ship-building centre (8) 7 A small medicine-bottle (5) 8 Harboured suspicions about someone (10) 9 Northern European country (173,860 sq miles; pop about 10 million). It joined the EU in 1995 (6) 14 Alexander __ (1832 - 1912), Lismore-born editor of Carmina Gadelica (10) 17 Citizen of a central European country (35,920 sq miles; pop about 10 million). It joined the EU in 2004 (9) 18 Divert from the original use or possessor (8) 20 A system or ordered way of doing things (6) 22 An orange-coloured fruit of the plum family (7) 23 The SI unit of electric current (6) 25 Distribute in portions (5) 27 Saint __ (c673 - 735), Jarrow-based monk regarded as the “Father of English History” (4)