The Irish Mail on Sunday

Hidden within the grid are answers to these 20 clues

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1 Sebastian Melmoth, who died in Paris in 1900, is better

known as who?

2 What was the first name of the US golf legend Palmer?

3 John Cleese provides the voice for King Harold in which

animated series?

4 What disease is named after the Greek for ‘without

appetite’?

5 The memoir Life is by which member of the Rolling Stones?

6 Which H is an organ-like keyboard instrument in which the notes are produced by air driven through metal reeds by foot-operated bellows?

7 The second atomic bomb was dropped on what

Japanese city?

8 What is golfer Tiger Woods’ first name?

9 Of which planet did Mariner 4 complete the first flyby,

in 1965?

10 What was the original purpose of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? 11 To which family of plants does the banana belong?

12 The disease encephalit­is is known informally as ‘water

on the...’ what?

13 What planet did Gustav Holst omit from The Planets suite?

14 Incitatus was a horse (and senator) owned by whom?

15 Complete the title of a Little Richard hit Long Tall...?

16 Aphrodite Terra is the southern continent on which planet?

17 What is the name of James’s fiancée in La Sylphide (in ballet)? 18 ‘Preto’ is Portuguese for which colour?

19 Georges Simenon created which character known by

one name?

20 What US state lies to the south of Georgia?

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