FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ruined monastery in north Fife, founded in the late 12th century (8,5) 10 Domesticated animals akin to the llamas (7) 11 Horace __ , character created by John Mortimer for the TV series (7) 12 The national legislature of Japan, etc (4) 13 A female donkey (5) 14 Island in the Inner Hebrides, one of the

Small Isles (4) 17 A fast-growing coniferous evergreen tree

(9) 19 A fine glaze for pottery (5) 20 Port or sherry with hot water, sweetened

and spiced (5) 22 The south american bell-bird (9) 24 KD__(b 1961), Edmonton-born singer songwriter

(5) 25 Directions or quarters (5) 27 The currency unit of China (4) 30 Derogatory term for old men (7) 31 Marked with spots or streaks (7) 32 South-west town( pop 4,000), where most

of The Wicker Man was filmed (6,7)

DOWN

2 Godlessness, or lack of reverence (7) 3 The turntable of a record-player (4) 4 Small civet native to east Asia (5) 5 A yellow metal found in celestine (9) 6 A fenced enclosure in southern and eastern Africa (4) 7 Black vulcanised rubber (7) 8 The crane-fly (5,8) 9 An instrument used to detect and measure radioactivity (6,7) 15 A tropical American tree with very light wood (5) 16 Indian state (30,285 sq miles; pop 27 million), a major tea-producing area (5) 18 Emily __ (1830 - 86), Massachusetts-born poet (9) 21 Citizen of a city in northern Italy (pop about 600,000), a major seaport (7) 23 South American country (109,484 sq miles; pop 17 million), independent since 1830 (7) 26 A book of the Apocrypha (5) 28 The thread carried by the spindle (4) 29 Perspective or field of vision (4)