FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The higest ranked of the Great Offices of State (4,10)

9 Large country in west Africa (356,669 sq miles; pop about 200 million), independent since 1960 (7)

10 Brown coal (7)

11 Douglas __ (1861 - 1929), Edinburghborn soldier who commanded the British Expeditionary Force (1915 - 18) (4)

12 A large wid ox (5)

13 Small island in the Mediterranean Sea (26 sq miles; pop about 33,000) (4)

16 The brother of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (7)

17 Old name of a former capital city in southeast Asia (pop about 8.4 million) (6)

19 An ancient earth-built grave-mound (6) 22 A bright red monoclinic mineral (7)

25 Large island in the Inner Hebrides (338 sq

miles; pop about 3,000) (4)

26 Dialect term for soft, slimy mud (5)

27 City in Indiana (pop about 75,000), once a

major steel-producing centre (4) 30 Nickname of a leading American jazz musician, actor, etc (7)

31 The clove genus of the myrtle family (7) 32 Ancient Jewish religious manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves (4,3,7)

DOWN

1 Small town in the south-west (pop about2,000), known as the “Muckle Toon” (8)

2 A form of music, highly syncopated in the melody (7)

3 A common fresh-water fish (4)

4 Plants of a large genus of shrubs and trees, commonly known as the wattles (7) 5 Former port and royal burgh in Fife, thought to have been founded in the 6th century (7) 6 A company emblem or device (abbrev) (4) 7 River rising in Venezuela and flowing 1,600 miles into the Atlantic (7)

8 Daniel __ (1660 - 1731 ), London-born novelist who wrote Moll Flanders (1722) (5)

14 A yearling or young ox (5) 15 Densely-populated state in eastern India (36,357 sq miles; pop about 105 million) (5) 18 Large genus of geese of the waterfowl family (8)

20 A plate of armour for the shoulder (7) 21 Robert __ (1676 - 1745), Norfolk-born politician, regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (7) 22 Alargeinternationalnewsorganisation(7) 23 A small anchor with several flukes (7) 24 Relating to a strict US Menonite sect (5) 28 Large country in north central Africa (496,000 sq miles; pop about 14 million), independent snce 1960 (4)

29 Prince __ , the title character of an opera by

Borodin (4)