FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ancient royal burgh in Lanarkshire, with a charter dated 1126 (pop about 31,000) (10) 6 A parrot-wrasse (4) 10 Thomas __ a character in Dickens’s Hard Times (9) 11 Examinations that are spoken not written (5) 12 Drink made with hot beer, spirits, etc (6) 13 An old French bagpipe (7) 15 Historic term for a foreigner (8) 18 Cathedral city and port in north-west France (pop about 110,000) (5) 19 A short musical composition designed as an exercise (5) 21 Repugnant, or out of keeping (9) 23 Take upon oneself, or embrace as a cause (7) 24 A breach of the peace (6) 27 Archaic term for quick, eager or early (5) 28 Any member of a class of parasitic flatworms (9) 29 Cathedral city in the north of England (pop about 210,000) (4) 30 A film script (10)

DOWN

1 Capital city in north-east Europe (pop about 640,000), once a member of the Hanseatic League (4) 2 A local intonation (coll) (5) 3 The clove genus of the myrtle family (7) 4 Edvard __ (1843 - 1907), Norwegian pianist and composer (5) 5 A mineral enclosed within another mineral (9) 7 A female nightclub singer (9) 8 Ruined priory near Forfar, founded in 1153 (10) 9 An early form of petrol pump (6) 14 A former royal burgh in the north-east, once a busy fishing port (10) 16 A crane-like South American bird (9) 17 Branch of logic teaching the rules and modes of reasoning (9) 20 Discharges through the pores or incisions (6) 22 The chorus of a song (7) 24 The white poplar tree (5) 25 A ring-shaped coral reef (5) 26 A company or flock of larks, etc (4)