FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Notorious prison south of the Thames, closed in 1842 (10)

6 To trouble or annoy (4)

10 A French breed of beef cattle (9) 11 River rising in the Apennines, and flowing 252 miles into the Tyrrhenian Sea (5) 12 Spanish rice dish of chicken, seafood, vegetables, etc (6)

13 Arthur __ (1884 – 1967), Leeds-born author who wrote Swallows and Amazons (1929) (7)

15 Asian city (pop about 1 million), developed as a new capital in the 1960s (9)

18 An umbelliferous plant yielding aromatic

seeds(5)

19 A solution of cresol in soap, a powerful

disinfectant (5)

21 Old-fashioned term for song thrushes (9) 23 A small round rowing-boat, made of

wickerwork, etc (7)

24 Country in southern Europe (50,960; pop

about 11 million). It joined the EC in1981 (6) 27 One of the elder gods and goddesses overthrown by Zeus in Greek mythology (5)

28 Relating to a French philosopher (1596 – 1650) (9)

29 Market town in Norfolk (pop 8,000), supposed to be the birth-place of the poet John Skelton (4)

30 Any fern of the genus Asplenium (10)

DOWN

1 A type of tear gas (4)

2 A lariat (Sp) (5)

3 Small-time criminal or gangster (7)

4 Any climbing plant of tropical forests (5) 5 US road drama film (1969), starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (4,5) 7 Sweet or fragrant (9)

8 A large antelope of southern Africa (10) 9 A group of lines of verse, forming a definite pattern (6)

14 Out of joint (10)

16 Purifies by sacrifice (9)

17 A plant of the crowfoot family (9)

20 A depression in a pitted surface (6)

22 An illegal liquor shop in Ireland (7)

24 A deep narrow valley with steep sides (5) 25 A strong khaki-like twilled cotton (5)

26 A snipe-like shore bird (4)