Hidden within the grid are answers to these 20 clues

1 The males of which Arctic whales bear a single large tusk

made up of an upper canine tooth?

2 Who is Rosalind’s lover in Shakespeare’s As You Like It?

3 Who was the ruler of the USSR from 1917-22?

4 What is the line on a weather chart which joins points of

equal pressure?

5 Who invented the thermometer in 1593?

6 The Planets is a famous classical work by which

composer?

7 Melbourne is the capital of which Australian state?

8 What was the name of the pandemic which killed over

1% of the world’s population in 1918?

9 Which animal is, on average, the heaviest member of the

great apes?

10 What was the name of the band formed by Paul

McCartney after the break up of The Beatles?

11 What common term refers to the movement of air from

a high pressure to a low pressure zone?

12 Which country was first to operate an old age pension

scheme?

13 In which European city did composer Richard Wagner die

in 1883?

14 What common term refers to the amount of water

vapour that is held in the air?

15 Which composer’s Waltz No.3 is called the Cat Waltz?

16 Southern Rhodesia became what country in 1980?

17 Often the first word in the dictionary, which relative of the elephant derives its name for the Afrikaans for

‘earth pig’?

18 Imperial Gage and Red Gage are varieties of which fruit? 19 What is the unit of measurement of wind speed?

20 What name is generally given to the wild feral dogs

native to Australia?