FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 A capital city in South America (pop about 500,000), founded as a fort in 1537 (8) 5 A peg controlling a faucet (6)
9 A Moorish palace and fortress in southern Spain, built in the 14th century (8)
10 A squared stone used in building a wall (6) 12 US state (42,143 sq miles; pop about 7
million), nicknamed the Volunteer State (9) 13 Archaic term for a joint in the human body
(5)
14 A sewer or privy 6)
17 Country in the Caribbean (10,710 sq miles;
pop 7 million), independent since 1804 (5) 20 A high steep bank (5)
21 A legndary island associated with King
Arthur (6)
24 Large European country (116,750 sq miles;
pop about 60 million), unified in 1861 (5) 25 A breed of large spotted dogs (9)
28 Small curved pieces of lemon, etc,
flavouring a drink (6)
29 William -- (1670 - 1729), Yorkshire-born playwright who wrote Love for Love (1695) (8)
30 English county (1,024 sq miles; pop about 800,000), the birthplace of Thomas Hardy 6)
31 German city (pop 300,000), on the
confluence of the Rhine and the Nektar (8)
DOWN
1 Looks forward to an expected event (6) 2 Island (6 sq miles; pop 1,000), the northwestern most part of metropolitan France (6)
3 Auguste __ (1798 - 1852), French philosopher known as the founder of sociology (5))
4 The Florentine or other iris (5)
6 Small tree, a member of the cashew family (9)
7 Relating to a large complex system of stars (8)
8 A plant of the ginger family (8)
11 US state (110,577 sq miles; pop about 3 milion), nicknamed the Silver State (6) 15 City in Louisiana (pop about 125,000), regarded as the centre of Acadiana (9) 16 A lawless ruffian in Paris, etc (6) 18 Forestalled or removed a need or difficulty (8)
19 Francois __ (1907 - 71), politician who was president of 17 across (1957 - 71) (8) 22 __ Onegin, a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin (6)
23 Italian theologian (c1033 - (1109), appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 (6)
26 La __ , province in northern Spain (1,948 sq miles; pop 320,000), noted for its wines (5) 27 Town in northern Scotland (pop 24,000), created a royal burgh in the 12th century (5)