FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Aileen __ ( 1934 - 2018), Burntisland- born writer and illustrator ( 8)
5 County town, and former royal burgh in eastern Scotland ( pop about 14,000 ( 6) 9 Jean Jacques __ ( 1712 - 78), French philosopher who wrote Emile ( 1762) ( 8) 10 Affects with feelings, or overthrows in
battle ( 6)
12 A major Black Sea resort, developed on
empty land in the 1960s ( 6)
13 A fruit that splits into dehiscent parts ( bot)
( 5)
16 A small South American monkey ( 3- 3) 17 Former name of a capital city in the Balkans
( 1946 - 62) ( 8)
20 The 12 chief disciples of Jesus Christ ( 8) 21 Small town in central Scotland ( pop about
3,000), with a medieval castle ( 6)
23 Arthur __ ( 1891 - 1975), London- born
composer knighted in 1950 ( 5)
25 A ball bowled by an off- spinner that moves in the opposite direction from an off- break ( 6)
28 A large trade union formed by the merger
of three public sector unions in 1993 ( 6) 29 A close friend or companion ( Sp) ( 8) 30 River rising in the Himalayas, and flowing
1,680 miles into the Bay of Bengal ( 6)
31 A synthetic fabric of polyester fibres ( 8)
DOWN
1 A reel, bobbin or spool ( 4)
2 A flat wooden fruit- basket ( 4)
3 Able to recoil or spring back after bending ( of substances) ( 9)
4 Region of north- east Africa ( 126,282 sq miles; pop about 9 million ( 6)
6 An ear- shell or sea- ear ( 5)
7 Ella __ ( 1917 - 96), Virginia- born jazz singer
( 10)
8 Commanders of troops of Indian cavalry
( 10)
11 A state in north- east Brazil ( 218,431 sq
miles; pop about 15 million) ( 5)
14 French regional capital ( pop 280,0000, the
seat of the European Parliament ( 10)
15 The act of giving sworn evidence ( 10) 18 Concerned with the formation and features
of mountains ( 9)
19 Open, unforested, or thinly forested
grassland in southern Africa ( 5)
22 The North American prairie- wolf ( 6)
24 A unicellar asexual reproductive body ( 5) 26 A cutting tool with an arched blade, set at
right angles to the handle ( 4)
27 Four- rowed or six- rowed barley ( 4)