FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Borders town (pop about 12,000), the site of the School of Textiles and Design (10) 6 A hunting whip with a loop instead of a lash (4) 10 US state capital (pop about 10,000), incorporated in 1859 (7) 11 A large freshwater lake in western Hungary, the largest lake in central Europe (8) 12 An archaic term for a warhorse (8) 13 Yawning or gaping hollow (5) 15 Sword-shaped (bot) (6) 17 A magistrate in ancient Rome (8) 19 Ancient people living east of the Dead Sea (8) 21 A small religious fraternity among the ancient Jews (6) 24 Gustav __ (1874 - 1934), Cheltenham-born composer who created The Planets suite (5) 25 Capital city in South America (pop about 5.6 million), founded in 1541 (8) 28 Yuri __ (1934 - 68), Soviet cosmonaut, the first person to orbit the earth (7) 29 Jacob __ (1880 - 1959), Us-born sculptor knighted in 1954 (7) 30 Natalie __ (1938 - 81), US actress who starred in the film West Side Story (1961) (4) 31 Small town (pop about 1,600), the site of the
Highland Folk Museum (10)
DOWN
1 John __ (1779 - 1839), Irvine-born novelist who wrote The Annals of the Parish (1821) (4) 2 A popular set of quadrilles, or its music (7) 3 Jonathan __ (1667 - 1745), Dublin-born author of Gulliver’s Travels (1726) (5) 4 Elsie __ (1864 - 1917), India-born doctor who founded the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (6) 5 A small poisonous tree native to the Alps (8) 7 Undo a previous move in chess (7) 8 Small animal belonging to the mustelid family (4,6) 9 Waterproofs, especially oilskins, in the US (8) 14 Small town in the Central Belt (pop about 3,500), a former coal-mining centre (10) 16 American colloquial term for tornadoes (8) 18 The roles adopted by authors and actors (8) 20 With brisk movement (mus) (7) 22 Crete-born painter who settled in toledo
(1541 - 1614) (2,5) 23 An order for goods, especially from
overseas (6) 26 Henrik __ (1828 - 1906), Norwegian dramatist who wrote Peer Gynt (1867) (5) 27 William __ (1860 - 1954), Yorkshire-born priest who became the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1911 (4)