FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A European intellectual movement of the 17th/18th centuries (13)

10 Capital city in north Africa (pop about 3.5

million), founded by the Phoenicians (7) 11 Convert (waste, etc) into reusable material

(7)

12 City in Indiana (pop about 75,000), founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906 (4)

13 The largest lake in New Zealand (238 sq

miles) (5)

14 A land mollusc with a shell rudimentary or

absent (4)

17 Faded way (9)

19 A fine glaze for pottery (5)

20 A dish of okra pods seasoned (5)

22 With full time allowed for each note (mus)

(9)

24 John __ (1752 - 1835), Architect who redesigned the Royal Pavilion in Brighton (4)

25 Evelyn __ (1903 - 66), London-born novelist

who wrote Decline and Fall (1928 ) (5) 27 The monetary unit of China (4)

30 A friendly agreement between states (7) 31 A north Germanic language, spoken as a first language by about 70,000 people (7) 32 Stylish, sophisticated young people (FR) (8,5)

DOWN

2 Large country in north Africa (356,669 sq miles; pop about 200,000), independent since 1960 (7)

3 Charles __ (1874- 1954), US composer who composed Central Park in the Dark (1898) (4)

4 A genus of decorative perennial herbaceous plants from Asia (5) 5 Greek dramatist (c 480 - 406 BC) who wrote Medea and Electra (9)

6 The smallest of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides (4)

7 The passenger compartment of an airship (7)

8 The main indicator of market performance in Hong Kong (4,4,5)

9 Instrument for detecting and measuring radioactivity (6,7)

15 A form of jazz music from about 1940 (5) 16 The trembling poplar (5) 18 Percussion instrument used in Spain, Portugal, etc (9)

21 An old French bagpipe (7)

23 A small, usually four-stringed guitar (7) 26 A blunder or faux pas (5) 28 Immediately, or at another time (4)

29 A large southern constellation (4)