FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Blackberry bushes (8) 5 A camp for prisoners of war in Germany (6) 9 A lament for the dead (8) 10 Fresh and youthful (poet) (6) 12 A rough, open dress fabric (6) 13 To pine, or waste away (5) 16 In the same place (L) (6) 17 A long-bodied, short-legged, hard-coated terrier (8) 20 Borough in south London (pop about 300,000), formed in 1965 (9) 21 African state (481,351 sq miles; pop 25 million), independent since 1975 (6) 23 Ancient Slavic people who once occupied the north and east of Germany (5) 25 A granular, crystalline limestone (6) 28 Thomas __ (1847 - 1931), inventor who had more than 1,000 US patents (6) 29 Ancient city in north Africa founded by the Phoenicians (8) 30 Humphrey __ (1899 - 1957), US film actor who starred in Casablanca (1942) (6) 31 River rising in Northamptonshire, flowing 40 miles into the Thames at Oxford (8)

DOWN

1 The body of a cart (4) 2 British aircraft manufacturer founded in 1910 (4) 3 Mountain in Perthshire (3,983 feet), on the north side of Loch Tay (6) 4 Greek mathematician (c 300 BC), regarded as the father of geometry (6) 6 River rising in the Lowther Hills, flowing 97 miles into the North Sea (5) 7 Ancient royal burgh (pop 19,000), the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots (10) 8 The middle way between extremes (6,4) 11 Shallow freshwater loch in central Scotland, a National Nature Reserve (5) 14 A perennial plant of the evening primrose family (6-4) 15 Large town in Ayrshire (pop 22,000), with a ruined abbey (founded c1150 (10) 18 Eric __ (1899 - 1974), Scottish novelist who wrote The Men of Ness (1932) (9) 19 A board game played on 256 squares (5) 22 Small city in Northern Ireland (pop about 14,500), with two cathedrals (6) 24 Battle, assault or tumult (5) 26 A small river fish of the carp family (4) 27 A Spenserian term for gall or bitterness (4)