FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

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1 Alford-born poet (1864 - 1941), who wrote Hamewith (7,6) 10 Very thin material made of silk, rayon or nylon (7) 11 A basic arsenate of copper found in Cornwall and Ireland (7) 12 The sister-wife of Zeus in Greek mythology (4) 13 US state capital (pop about 200,000), incorporated as a city in 1863 (5) 14 A fragrant, healing ointment (4) 17 German river rising in the Sauerland region, and flowing 136 miles into the Rhine (5,4) 19 Commercial and industrial city in northern Italy (pop about 1.4 million), founded around 600 BC (5) 20 A ditch, moat, trench, etc (5) 22 Sedimentary rock of calcium carbonate (9) 24 A minced oath expressing surprise, anger,

etc (4) 25 Insolence or impudence (5) 27 Large constricting snakes (4) 30 System of holding land in single holdings, made up of detached pieces (7) 31 Obtain in a pure, uncombined state (7) 32 Instrument used to detect and measure radioactivity (6,7)

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2 William __ (1697 - 1764), London-born artist who painted A Rake’s Progress (7) 3 The typical genus of frogs (4) 4 The Muse of amatory lyric poetry (5) 5 A powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river (9) 6 Alastair __ (1926 - 2014), Whithorn-born poet and translator (4) 7 A lady’s-maid (1 Samuel xxv) (7) 8 Material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer (6,2,5) 9 An infectious disease with a pink rash (6,7) 15 A kind of small gazelle of Africa and Asia (5) 16 Of or belonging to a strict US Mennonite sect (5) 18 Give (information, etc) unasked (9) 21 A toast of good health in Gaelic (7) 23 Egg-shaped in outline (bot) (7) 26 Seaport and county town in the west of Ireland (pop about 20,000) (5) 28 A semi-hard cow’s milk cheese made in Cornwall (4) 29 Augustus __ (1878 - 1961), Tenby-born painter, draughtsman and etcher (4)