FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
This week’s prize: a Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus set, to the first correct entry opened at random. Entries must be received by Thursday. Cut out the crossword panel and send to: Factfinder’s Crossword, The Scotsman, Level 8, Orchard Brae House, 30 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2HS.. Normal Johnston Press rules apply: www. johnstonpress.co.uk/jpplc/competition
ACROSS
1 Tibetan monasteries (10) 6 Alban __ (1885 - 1935), Austrian composer who wrote the music for Lulu (1935) (4) 10 Citizen of a country in north-east Europe (25,590 sq miles; pop 2 million), indepednent since 1991 (7) 11 French writer (1873 - 1954), best known for her novella, Gigi (1944) (7) 12 Seaport and resort on the east coast (pop about 12,000), a former royal burgh (8) 13 A silk voile or other thin fabric (5) 15 Historical term for to reclaim for agriculture by grubbing (6) 17 A large breed of terrier (8) 19 Archaic term for not generated (8) 21 A medicine that causes vomiting (6) 24 Landlocked, mountainous Asian country (54,600 sq miles; pop about 28 million) (5) 25 Apoisonousalkaloidindeadlynightshade (8) 28 US state capital (pop about 500,000), founded in 1837 (7) 29 A curtain-rod (7) 30 A domestic slave in Old English times (4) 31 A solid figure having ten sides (10)
DOWN
1 A cheerful song or air (4) 2 Tropical American birds akin to the kingfishers (7) 3 Jonathan __ (1667 - 1745), Dublin-born poet and satirist who wrote Gulliver’s Travels (1726) (5) 4 Damon __ (1880 - 1946), US journalist and humorous short-story writer (6) 5 A popular assembly, especially of ancient Athens (8) 7 Country in north-east Europe (17,410 sq miles; pop about 1.3 million), independent since 1991 (7) 8 International enviromental organisation founded in 1971 (10) 9 A baroque palace in Oxfordshire designed by Sir John Vanburgh (8) 14 A fine porcelain like marble (6,4) 16 A dry white table wine (8) 18 Small town in Northern Irelamd (pop 13,000), on the border with the Irish Republic (8) 20 A small fish of the smelt family (7) 22 A South American bird with bright plumage, closely akin to the finches (7) 23 Small town in the south-west (pop about 3,000), near the site of the Battle of Sark (1448) (6) 26 Thomas __ (1737 - 1800), Thetford-born wiriter who wrote The Rights of Man (5) 27 Provincial capital in north-west Spain (pop about 450,000) with a 13th century Gothic cathedral (4)