FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Clint __ (b 1930), US actor and director who starred in Dirty Harry (1971) (8) 5 South American river rising in Brazil and flowing 665 miles to join the Paraguay river (6) 9 A breed of dairy cattle from the Netherlands (8) 10 A popular rising or uproar (6) 12 Paul __ (1895 - 1963), German composer, violinist and conductor (9) 13 A tortilla chip topped with melted cheese, etc (5) 14 The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry in Greek mythology (6) 17 A pin on the side of a boat to keep the oar in place (5) 20 North-east town (pop about 10,000), on the River Ythan (5) 21 Arthur Wing __ (1855 - 1934), London-born actor and dramatist (6) 24 William __ (1757 - 1827), London-born poet, painter and engraver who wrote Jerusalem (1820) (5) 25 Selkirkshire-born African explorer (1771 1806) (5,4) 28 Turn like a wheel (6) 29 City in north-west India (pop about 1 million), the centre of the Sikh faith (8) 30 Roman lyric poet (65 - 8 BC) (6) 31 Move through the water (of a boat ) (8)

DOWN

1 Measures used for dry goods in Hebrew (6) 2 The goddess of the moon in Greek mythology (6) 3 A band of twisted twigs (5) 4 A small South African antelope, the palebuck (5) 6 Small town in Devon (pop about 6,000), noted for carpet-making (9) 7 South American capital city (pop 525,000), founded as a fort in 1537 (8) 8 Windflowers of the buttercup family (8) 11 Twisted or perverse (6) 15 Relating to a league of German commercial cities founded in 1356 (9) 16 A fatty tumour (6) 18 Old royal burgh in Fife (pop about 2,000), dating from 1631 (8) 19 The true wild olive (8) 22 European capital city (pop 1.75 million), founded around 1300 (6) 23 A reef of rock (6) 26 Second personal name of a citizen of ancient Rome (5) 27 Sheep-like (5)