FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 James __ (1772 - 1833) and John __ (1774 - 1821), publishers of many works by Sir Walter Scott (10) 6 A stake or stump, or an awl (4) 10 Genus of lizards, or a northern constellation

(7) 11 A Japanese palanquin (7) 12 Ancient fortified islands in lochs, partly

natural and partly artificial (8) 13 A New Zealand tree with white wood (5) 15 Hannah __ (1906 - 75), German-born American philosopher and political theorist (6) 17 A wooden statue with stone extremities

(8) 19 Person or thing that serves as an

inspiration or guide (8) 21 Is consistent, satisfactory to the mind (4,2) 24 African river, rising in Guinea and flowing

2,600 miles into the Atlantic Ocean (5) 25 Archaic term for bats (8) 28 A rough, open dress-fabric (7) 29 Large town in Uganda (pop about 70,000),

on Lake Victoria (7) 30 South American wild cat (4) 31 A long-bodied lightly-built terrier (10)

DOWN

1 Henry __ (1767 - 1830), West Lothian-born engineer who directed the building of the Comet (4) 2 Purple medick, a plant used as fodder for cattle, etc (7) 3 The brother of Moses who was the first high priest of the Israelites (5) 4 A small table or tripod (6) 5 The black medick (8) 7 Orchestral kettledrums (7) 8 Temperance organisation founded in Leeds in 1847 (4,2,4) 9 Timber of great hardness, got from various trees (8) 14 Small fishing village in Ayrshire, the site of a ruined castle (c1450) (10) 16 Wary, circumspect or prudent (8) 18 D H Lawrence (1885 - 1930), Eastwoodborn novelist who wrote Sons and Lovers (1913) (8) 20 Another name for Sirius, the brightest star

in the night sky (7) 22 An old instrument like a trombone (7) 23 George __ (1903 -58), pseudonym for Indian-born novelist who wrote Animal Farm (1945) (6) 26 The smallest element of a gene capable of

giving rise to a new form by mutation (5) 27 Jerome __ (1885 - 945), New York-born

composer (4)