FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

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1 Mountain in Perthshire (3,547 feet), located north of Loch Tay (12) 9 Oxford college founded in 1263 (7) 10 A trick-taking card game like bezique (7) 11 A stop-cock in a gas- or water-main under the road (4) 12 State in northern India (38,301 sq miles; pop about 100 million) (5) 13 Unsweetened (of wine) (Fr) (4) 16 Island town (pop about 7,500), a major ferry and fishing port (7) 17 Pertaining to the language of ordinary people (7) 18 Aristotle __ (1906 - 75), Greek shipping

magnate (7) 21 A low-lying sandy beach affording some

pasturage (7) 23 Large Egyptian port city (pop about

500,000) (4) 24 A dry-built circular tower of the late Iron

Age (5) 25 Spenserian term for to cease from (4) 28 Arthur __ (1884 - 1967), Leeds-born author who wrote the Swallows and Amazons series of books (7) 29 A vessel used to hold coal (7) 30 Former spa town in the Highlands (pop about 1,500), the site of the Pictish Eagle Stone (12)

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2 State capital in southern Nigeria (pop 370,000), a major seaport (7) 3 A wading bird with a curved bill akin to the spoonbill (4) 4 Planned village in Highland Region (pop 1,000), founded in 1803 (7) 5 Large area of northern Scandinavia, largely within the Arctic Circle (7) 6 Island in the Inner Hebrides where St Columba landed in 563 AD (4) 7 A bright orange-red, or a fabric so coloured (7) 8 Term pertaining to the Highland Scots, Welsh, Irish and Cornish (6,6) 9 Engagement near Gretna (1448), where a Scots army repulsed an English invasion (6,2,4) 14 Capital city in eastern Europe (pop about 2 million), founded in the 11th century (5) 15 A small coaster or fishing vessel (5) 19 The infernal regions in Roman mythology (7) 20 Obsolete leather-covered brass wind

instrument (7) 21 Constructs a full-scale dummy model (5,2) 22 A plate of armour for the shoulder (7) 26 The strong fibre of coconut husk (4) 27 A rock composed of fine volcanic

fragments and dust (4)