FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Albert __ (1913 - 60), French novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 (5) 8 State in southern Brazil (76,956 sq miles; pop about 12 million) (6) 9 A capital city in central Europe (pop about 1.3 million) (6) 10 A Falkland Islands penguin (6) 11 Elizabeth Garrett __ (1836 - 1917), Londonborn pioneering physician (8) 12 and 29 A Chinese system of exercise and

self-defence (3,3) 13 The guillemot (6) 14 French university founded in 1257 (8) 17 Small forts or earthworks (7) 19 A stool, originally drum-shaped (7) 23 Anarchitrave(8) 27 A colourful crested bird (Upupa epops) (6) 29 See 12 across 30 A French card game (8) 31 Dutch city (pop about 125,000), with a

university founded in 1575 (6) 32 Arthur Wing __ (1855 - 1934), London-born

dramatist, knighted in 1909 (6) 33 A funeral oration (6) 34 Small birds of the genus Troglodytes (5)

DOWN

1 A light, flat-bottomed boat on Canadian rivers (6) 2 Terence __ (1911 - 77), London-born dramatist, knighted in 1971 (8) 3 Any of a number of reddish-yellow pigments found largely in fruit and vegetables (8) 4 A feeling of discomfort or sickness (7) 5 A light, high-wheeled, horse-drawn open carriage (6) 6 A Spanish-speaking community or district (usually poor) in the US (6) 7 Induce another to commit an unlawful act (6) 13 A long-stapled, hard-twisted cotton yarn (5) 15 and 18 A North American wildcat (6) 16 To intend or aspire (5) 18 See 15 down 20 The greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan

War in Greek mythology (8) 21 A North American shrub with spines and

clusters of red flowers (8) 22 A setting agent contained in the fleshy

pulp of unripe fruit (7) 24 Lake __ , the site of the Winter Olympics of

1932 and 1980 (6) 25 A native American chief (6) 26 A strong-scented plant in the family

Asteraceae (6) 28 Nervous, tense, or all agog (2,4)