FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

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1 Small town in the north east (pop about 3,000), once called Conveth (12) 9 Former borough in Northern Ireland (pop 72,000), granted city status in 2002 (7) 10 Former county town and royal burgh in the Borders (pop about 8,500) (7) 11 A cage for fish or lobsters (4) 12 Sign of the zodiac (5) 13 A flock of snipe (4) 16 Land-locked freshwater lake in Israel (64 sq miles) (7) 17 Recovers consciousness (5,2) 18 Town in west-central France noted for its hard-paste porcelain (7) 21 Pisa-born mathematician and astronomer (1564 - 1642) (7) 23 A dogfish of various kinds (4) 24 Capital city in south-east Europe (pop about 1.2 million) (5) 25 A cross between a grapefruit, an orange

and a tangerine (4) 28 Traditional utterances ascribed to Jesus

not in the Gospels (7) 29 A mark given for a fault or offence (7) 30 Village in the Stirling Council area, a centre

for inland water sports (12)

DOWN

2 The currency of Argentina from 1985 to 1991 (7) 3 A tumultuous crowd or rabble (4) 4 A west African palm-civet (7) 5 Archaic term for a scientist who relied solely on observation and experiment (7) 6 A large-horned mountain goat (4) 7 Malignant water-sprites in the form of horses (7) 8 Social scientist who studies election results and trends (12) 9 Former burgh in the west (pop 2,300), now a council administrative centre (12) 14 A funeral oration (5) 15 Small city in northern Italy (pop about 70,000), a Formula One Grand Prix venue (5) 19 A cold dry north-east wind in southern France (7) 20 City in north-west USA (pop about 210,000), incorporated in 1881 (7) 21 The former basic monetary unit of the Netherlands (7) 22 Popular tourist area in north-west italy

(pop about 1.5 million) (7) 26 An alliance of oil-producing countries

(abbrev) (4) 27 A native nursemaid or child’s nurse in India

and east Asia (4)