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Hidden within the grid are answers to these 20 clues

1 The cauliflowe­r was first cultivated on or in the region of what Mediterran­ean island?

2 What Munich festival, claimed to be the world’s largest Volksfest (People’s Fair), attracts over six million visitors each year?

3 The ‘Reign of Terror’, 1793-94, was a particular­ly violent political period in which country?

4 W ho wrote To Kill A Mockingbir­d?

5 What British-based Quaker family created several

substantia­l social reform trusts as a legacy of its chocolate bu siness?

6 The original Greek meaning of the word Hippodrome was w hat?

7 The Holy See is the highest earthly authority of what rel igion?

8 ‘White House’ is the literal translatio­n (from Spanish) of which Moroccan city, also the title of a critically-acclaimed

19 42 film?

9 The Cretaceous, Triassic and which other geological period make up the Mesozoic Era?

10 A Wiener Schnitzel is traditiona­lly made from a cutlet of which type of meat?

11 An expanded and renamed Schonefeld Airport is a replacemen­t for Tegel Airport in which European city?

12 What car maker’s name means ‘roll’ in Latin?

13 Whom did Margaret Thatcher describe as ‘The man who paints those dreadful pictures’?

14 In which large gland of the human body where are the Islets

of Langerhans?

15 Au Poivre describes a dish involving what spice in its cooking

or sauce?

16 South Bend, Indiana, is home to which well-known university, which shares its name with a famous cathedral in

Par is, France?

17 What process, invented by a 19th-century French scientist, refers to the process by which milk and other produce is heated in order to remove harmful pathogens?

18 Which two-faced Roman god is the namesake of the month of January?

19 Brian Mulroney was the prime minister of which country?

20 What is the two-handled curved blade used for mincing

herbs and vegetables, which in Italian means ‘half-moon’?

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