FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

HUGH JOHNSON

ACROSS

7 Saint __ (d 651), the founding abbot of Lindisfarne (5) 8 Thomas __ (1798 - 1844), Scotland’s first

Astronomer Royal (9) 10 Sly or untrustworthy 6) 11 The cars of hot-air balloons (8) 12 A hybrid between China rose and muskrose (8) 13 The god of war in Greek mythology (4) 15 Into parts, or separately (7) 17 African antelopes related to the water bucks

(7) 20 Country in west Africa (478,841 sq miles;

pop 15 million), independent since 1960 (4) 22 Citizen of a European capital city (pop 650,000), one of the world’s oldest cities (8) 25 Patrick __ (c1498 - 1528), Protestant martyr burnt at the stake in St Andrews (8) 26 A hot spring that spouts a column of water

and steam into the air (6) 27 A play by George Bernard Shaw based on a

Greek myth (9) 28 A book of the Apocrypha (5)

DOWN

1 A building in Helensburgh designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (4,5) 2 Banjo __ (1864 - 1941), Australian poet who wrote Waltzing Matilda (8) 3 An intricate fret pattern (7) 4 Them in eralvesuv ian i te (8) 5 A young salmon on its first return from salt

water (6) 6 The lowest quality of black tea (5) 9 A small island (4) 14 Sub-region of oceania in the south-west

Pacific Ocean (9) 16 An old name for an architrave (8) 18 Robert __ (1425 - 1500), poet who wrote the

Testament of Cresseid (8) 19 County town in south-west england( pop

70,000) (7) 21 The water-plantain genus of

monocotyledons (6) 23 James __ (1770 - 1835), Ettrick-born author who wrote the novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner (4) 24 A god of the woodlands in Greek

mythology (5)