FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Robert __ (1750 - 74), Edinburgh-born poet who wrote Auld Reekie (9)

6 Walked slowly with measured tread (5) 9 A musical toy, originally of terracotta (7) 10 Archic term for a wanderer or wayfarer (7) 11 A freshwater fish of the carp family (5) 12 Share set aside for a specific purpose (9) 13 A ditch, moat, trench, etc (5) 14 Ridge-poles (4-5)

17 Something added to extend the length of a musical work, etc (9)

19 French river rising in the Plateau de Langres and flowing 483 miles into the English Channel (5)

21 A midwinter fire festval in Shetland (2-5-2) 24 A sharp mountain ridge (5)

26 Pertaining to a rainbow (7)

27 Historic county town in southern England (pop 135,000), the birthplace of Cardinal Wolsey (7)

28 A song of mourning (5)

29 King of Macedon (336 - 323 BC), who created one of the largest empires of the ancient world (9)

DOWN

1 A low cart for carrying cattle, milk, etc (5) 2 The buckthorn genus (7)

3 A character in David Copperfield (5,4) 4 A stone-built Neolithic settlement in Orkney (5,4)

5 Landlocked country in the Himalayas (56,827 sq miles; pop about 28 million) (5) 6 A scale on the receptacle of some composite plants (5)

7 A funeral procession (7)

8 A small cup of tea or coffee (9)

13 Type of pasta made in ribbons (9) 15 A worker in a manufactruing industry (9) 16 A section of the south-west Pacific Ocean (6,3)

18 A fossil footprint (7)

20 A little auk or sea-dove (3-4)

22 The people as distinguished from the

clergy (5)

23 A gossip or shrewish woman (US coll) (5) 25 A colourless volatile liquid used as an

aneasthetic (5)