FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Connected, or sticking together (8) 5 A syrupy blackcurrant drink or flavouring (6) 10 Ruined abbey in Fife, founded in the early 13th century (9) 11 A rough worsted cloth (5) 12 Nautical measures: 3.456 statute miles (7) 13 The rear part of a motor-car body (7) 14 Raymond __ (1888 - 1959), Chicago-born novelist and screenwriter (8) 17 The love of God for man, or man for God (5) 19 Capital city in south-east Asia (pop about 8 million) (5) 21 Type of white wine made in the Loire valley (8) 24 Bedrich __ (1824 - 84), Czech composer who created the opera, The Bartered Bride (7) 25 Spontaneous, or not far-fetched (7) 27 Small town in south-east Poland (pop about 6,000), close to the border with Ukraine (5) 28 Town on the north bank of the Clyde (pop

about 2,000), a royal burgh from 1222 (9) 29 An apple of certain old varieties (6) 30 A song of lamentation (8)

DOWN

1 A metallic element having similarities to nickel (6) 2 A game played on a board of 756 squares (5) 3 Henry __ (1752 - 1823), Edinburgh-born portrait painter (7) 4 A genus of water-plants akin to the pondweeds (5) 6 Character in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (7) 7 Town in south-east England (pop about 90,000), designated the UK’S first New Town in 1946 (9) 8 A member of an ancient Jewish priestly party of traditionalists (8) 9 Back doors or gates (8) 15 Arthur __ (1863 - 1935), Glasgow-born Labour politician awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 (9) 16 Industrial region in northern Italy (9,206 sq miles; pop about 10 million) (8) 18 A large kind of marmot (8) 20 An academic introduction to a subject (7) 22 Give an incentive to action, or set in motion (7) 23 A small spiny-finned fish (6) 25 A young female deity (a naiad, dryad, oread,

etc) in Greek mythology (5) 26 Old-fashioned, or relating to the past (5)