FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The central bank system of the United States (7,7) 9 A melodic embellishment (mus) (7) 10 Portuguese region (1,929 sq miles; pop

450,000), a popular tourist destination (7) 11 A narrow furrow on the moon or Mars (4) 12 David __ (b 1938), Kirkcaldy-born Liberal

politician, created a life peer in 1997 (5) 13 The monetary unit of Thailand (4) 16 Small yellowish-green birds of the finch

family (7) 17 Marie __ (1880 - 1958), Edinburgh-born

pioneer of birth control (6) 19 A glossy cotton or woollen fabric (6) 22 River rising in the Cabrach and flowing 60

miles into the Moray Firth (7) 25 Any of 500 species of flowering succulent

plants (4) 26 Colloquial term for a marine (5) 27 To foretell, or divine (4) 30 An old Portuguese gold coin (7) 31 Instrument used to bore holes in wood, etc (7) 32 Ancient Jewish religious manuscripts, discovered in 1946/47-1956 (4,3,7)

DOWN

1 Former royal burgh in the Highlands (pop 1,500), with a ruined 13th century cathedral (8) 2 Gavin __ (1476 - 1522), East Lothian -born poet who translated Virgil’s Aeneid into Scots (7) 3 The unit of currency in Iran, etc (4) 4 The father of Oysseus in Greek mythology (7) 5 Skipjack beetles (7) 6 Small island in the Inner Hebrides (12 sq miles; pop about 100) (4) 7 Gianni __ (1946 - 97), an Italian fashion designer (7) 8 Small town in eastern Ontario (pop about 6,000) on the Tay River, founded in 1816 (5) 14 A boomerang (5) 15 A dry white wine from the Veneto region of north-east Italy (5) 18 The hanuman monkey of India (8) 20 Wolf’s-bane or monk’s-hood, or a poison got from it (7) 21 Relating to the later division of the Tertiary period, comprising the Miocecne and Pliocene (7) 22 Leo __ (1836 - 9), French composer who created the ballet Coppelia (1870) (7) 23 Italian Renaissance painter and architect (1483 - 1520) (7) 24 Seaport city in southern Sweden (pop about

300,000), founded in the 13th century (5) 28 Alan __ (1943 - 98), Edinburgh-born poet and

biographer (4) 29 River rising in the Vosges mountains and

flowing 153 miles into the Moselle (4)