FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Short Highland river flowing into the River Conon (5,5) 6 Douglas __ (1861 - 1928), Edinburgh-born soldier who founded the British Legion (4) 10 Flowering plant growing in tropical or warm

temperate regions (7) 11 Large town in central Uganda (pop about

70,000), on Lake Victoria (7) 12 Large port city in Scandinavia (pop about

600,000), founded in 1621 (8) 13 The snow leopard (5) 15 The candytuft genus (6) 17 Large seaport city in northern Java (pop

about 1.8 million) (8) 19 A wild horse in Australia (8) 21 A small South American monkey (6) 24 The umbilicus, or the central point of a

place (5) 25 Historic region of north-east france (9,092

sq miles; pop about 3 million) (8) 28 Away from the normal context, etc (2,5) 29 A shape-changing sea-god in Greek

mythology (7) 30 John __ (1779 - 1839), Irvine-born novelist

who wrote Annals of the Parish (1821) (4) 31 Cambridge University’s oldest college,

founded in 1284 (10)

DOWN

1 A measure of capacity for grain (4) 2 Saint __ (c340 - 397), one of the four original Doctors of the Church (7) 3 A boomerang (5) 4 A type of high explosive (6) 5 Ornamental centrepieces for dining tables (8) 7 Country in south-east Europe (11,100 sq miles; pop about 3 million) (7) 8 Luxury country house hotel in Perthshire which opened in 1924 (10) 9 Cause to grow pale (bot) (8) 14 Ayrshire town (pop about 21,000), with a ruined abbey founded in the late 12th century (10) 16 A person’s own distinctive form of speech

(8) 18 The muse of epic poetry in Greek

mythology (8) 20 New production of a classic play, etc (7) 22 The rear part of a car body (7) 23 Iced,orartificiallycooled(6) 26 Highland fishing village (pop about 1,000),

on the Moray Firth (5) 27 A domestic slave (hist) (4)