CROSSWORD General Knowledge No. 2,590

ACROSS

1 Greek philosopher born on

Samos c570 BC (10) 7 Underground storage organ of

tuberous plants (4)

8 Large mass of grey matter in

the brain (8)

9 English artist who painted

Calais Pier in 1801 (6) 10 Popular Honda car model

produced since 1976 (6) 11 Colourful Eurasian bird with a

crested crown of feathers (6) 13 Moon of Saturn discovered by

William Pickering in 1899 (6) 15 German arms manufacturer

founded in 1811 (6)

18 Form of 1960s Jamaican music that evolved from ska and calypso (6)

20 Harpooner on Starbuck’s boat

in Moby-Dick (8) 21 Acronymic title of Tommy Handley’s 1939-1949 radio show (4)

22 Borodin opera based on an

old Russian epic (6,4)

DOWN

1 British Secretary of War forced

to resign in June 1963 (7) 2 Meerkat friend of Simba in the 1994 Disney film The Lion King (5)

3 Phoenician goddess, the

daughter of Epigeius (7) 4 D-Day landing beach to the

east of Pointe du Hoc (5) 5 Corsican city in which Napoléon Bonaparte was born in 1769 (7)

6 115-mile river that flows into the Atlantic at Waterford Harbour (4)

12 French chemist who discovered the principle of microbial fermentation (7) 13 Point of least distance in the

Moon’s orbit of the Earth (7)

14 Village Highland location Games of Gathering the annual (7)

16 White mineral salt used as a mordant in dyeing (4)

17 French city where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake (5)

19 Composer of the 1875 musical piece In the Hall of the Mountain King (5)

SOLUTION to Jeremy Mutch No. 1434: Across - 1 Purse, 4 Aquaplane, 9 Reprisals, 10 Aster, 11 Entry, 12 Heartache, 13 Upbraid, 15 Earwigs, 17 Fretted, 19 Medical, 21 Dishonour, 23 Dread, 24 Larva, 25 Means test, 26 Smartened, 27 Outré. Down - 1 Parvenu, 2 Reputable, 3 Edify, 4 Abashed, 5 Upstage, 6 Plastered, 7 Attic, 8 Earners, 14 Astronaut, 16 Increment, 17 Fiddles, 18 Doorman, 19 Mermaid, 20 Ladette, 22 Syria, 23 Disco.