FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Obsolete term for a jewelled head ornament (8) 5 The wattle, a tree or shrub native to Asia and Australia (6) 10 Village in Lewis, the site of a major standing

stone circle (8) 11 A show carried about for viewing in a box

(5) 12 An old instrument like the bassoon (7) 13 A name for a fox in European folklore (7) 14 A short, single-edged, curved sword (8) 17 Title given to independent chieftains in the

East and north Africa (5) 19 An evil demon in Arabian mythology (5) 21 Relating to a goose or the goose family (8) 24 Produces electric or magnetic activity (in)

(7) 25 Area of central Europe, mainly Poland (about 20,000 sq miles; pop about 8 million) (7) 27 The brother of Moses, the first high priest

of the Israelites (5) 28 The emblem of Canada (5,4) 29 To walk or move in a gliding or ostentatious

way (6) 30 Leading character in George Orwell’s

Animal Farm (8)

DOWN

1 Roman orator (106-43 BC), elected consul in 63 BC (6) 2 An object of historic interest (5) 3 City in southern California (pop about 350,000), founded in 1857 (7) 4 George __ (1819-80), pseudonym of Nuneaton-born novelist who wrote Adam Bede (1859) (5) 6 Thomas __ (1795-1881), Ecclefechan-born philosopher who wrote Sartor Resartus (1836) (7) 7 A purple-red seaweed used in soups, etc (8) 8 Town in south Wales (pop about 30,000), once a major coal-mining centre (8) 9 City in north central France (pop 40,000), with a large Gothic cathedral completed in 1220 (8) 15 Several South American vulture-like hawks (9) 16 Strengthening cross-pieces above windows or doors (8) 18 Highland reivers or freebooters (8) 20 A satellite of Uranus (7) 22 A type of sculpture with shapes carved on

a surface as to stand out (7) 23 Village in Lanarkshire (pop 2,000), with a

grotto which is a major pilgrimage site (6) 25 A rich brown pigment derived from the ink

sac of the cuttlefish (5) 26 A timber measure, a cubic metre (5)