FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
This week’s prize: a Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus set, to the first correct entry opened at random. Entries must be received by Thursday. Cut out the crossword panel and send to: Factfinder’s Crossword, The Scotsman, Level 8, Orchard Brae House, 30 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2HS.. Normal Johnston Press rules apply: www. johnstonpress.co.uk/jpplc/competition
ACROSS
1 Highland reivers (8) 5 Former burgh and spa town in the southwest (pop about 2,500) (6) 10 Eric __ (1899 - 1974), Scottish novelist who
wrote The Men of Ness (1932) (9) 11 Resolve a sentence into its component
parts (5) 12 Citizen of a large Islamic republic in the Middle East (636,160 sq miles; pop about 80 million) (7) 13 Mountain nymphs in Greek mythology (7) 14 La __ , French seaport on the Bay of Biscay
(pop 80,000) (8) 17 A Mexican agave fibre (5) 19 Oscar __ (1854 - 1900), Dublin-born dramatist who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (5) 21 A magical quality or feeling (4-4) 24 A maker of various stringed instruments
(7) 25 Historical term for a high steward (7) 27 An evil spirit or phantom (5) 28 Former name of a country in south-east Africa (36,324 sq miles; pop about 15 million), independent since 1964 (9) 29 A medicinal decoction (6) 30 Legal term for a manor-house and grounds
(8)
DOWN
1 and 18 Title of a collection of stories by WB Yeats (1893) (6,8) 2 Country in the south-west Pacific (270 sq miles; pop about 100,000), independent since 1970 (5) 3 US state capital (pop 450,000), founded in 1792 (7) 4 A former name for radon (5) 6 Fish-eating birds of prey (7) 7 Stimulates by induced currents (med) (9) 8 Region of central Greece on the Aegean Sea (5,420 sq miles; pop about 750,000) (8) 9 Botanic gardens of trees (8) 15 Eucharistic offerings (9) 16 A glossy silk cloth (8) 18 See 1 down 20 A yellow pigment, a form of chlorophyll (7) 22 The officials of princes’ courts in India (7) 23 Feel one’s hackles rise (6) 25 A measure of five “hundreds” of herring (5) 26 A plantain, or its fibre, Manila hemp (5)