FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

Dear Reader,

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic we are suspending competition entries for all our prize crosswords. Puzzles will continue to appear as normal but no entries will be accepted or prizes given.

We hope to return to normal as soon as possible.

The solution to this week’s Factfinder crossword will appear next Saturday as usual.

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Joy Yates, Editorial Director

Across

1 Coal-scuttles (4)

3 A two-masted sailing ship (10)

10 The Ten Commandments (9)

11 Soft drink, originally marketed as a health

tonic (5)

12 Semi-transparent gemstones (5)

13 An irregular emotional piece of music (8) 15 People from a large Greek island (3,260 sq

miles; pop about 650,000 (7)

17 Gilded, or floridly rhetorical (7)

19 Louis __ (1822 - 95), French chemist and

microbiologist (7)

21 A violent commotion, or agitation (fig) (7) 22 An African charm, amulet or spell (8)

24 A book of the old Testament (5)

27 Made one unable to think clearly (5)

28 Person asserting the unity of God, and

rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity (9) 29 Banter or flippancy (10)

30 A small type of flute (4)

Down

1 A kind of water-clock (10)

2 A country house in Russia (5)

4 Expressions of friendliness in greetings (7)

5 Small Caribbean country (134 sq miles; pop

about 110,000), independent since 1974 (7) 6 Small Caribbean island (36 sq miles; pop abut

12,000), in the Lesser Antibes (5)

7 Actual, at this moment (9)

8 A small island in a river (4)

9 A gliding movement in dance (8)

14 In a very slow tempo (mus) (10)

16 A road movie (1969), produced by Peter

Fonda(4,5)

18 Of a country in south-east Europe (92,046 sq miles; pop 19 million). It joined the EU in 2007 (8)

20 A large baleen whale (7)

21 Being full of, or swarming with (7)

23 A fragrant resinous substance (5)

25 Caribbean country (10,710 sq miles; pop about 12 million), independent since 1904 (5)

26 A large freshwater fish (4)