FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wartime film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (1942) (10)

6 River rising in the Czech Republic, and flowing 520 miles into the Baltic Sea (40 10 Large island off the west coast (167 sq miles; pop 5,000), on the Highland Boundary Fault (5)

11 Small city in western Florida (pop about 7,000), incorporated in 1919 (9)

12 Saint __ (c1033- 1109), Italian theologian created Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 (6)

13 The most distant giant planet, discovered

in 1846 (7)

15 The wild ass of central Asia (6)

16 A long wooden pin used to fasten the planks of a ship to the timbers (8) 19 Region of northern France (11,825 sq miles; pop 3.3 million), a major cider producer (8) 21 Bertolt __ (1898 - 1956), German dramatist

who wrote Mother Courage (1939) (6) 24 Relating to the intestines (7)

26 Jane __ (1775 - 1817), Hampshire-born novelist who wrote Emma (1815-16) 6) 28 Port city in north-east Spain (pop 200,000), with a university established in 1991 (9)

29 A South American aquatic rodent (5) 30 The maple genus (4)

31 A large, widespread family of flowering

plants, including the daisy (10)

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1 Country in north central Africa (495,624 sq miles; pop about 14 million (4) 2 Former ferry port in the south-west (pop about 11,000) (9)

3 A colourless, volatile liquid present in coal tar, etc (7)

4 The water-plantain genus (6)

5 City in the West Midlands (pop about 325,00), with three universities (8) 7 Large city in South Korea (pop about 2.5 million), known as the “Textile” City” (5) 8 Having a small beak-like projection (bot) (10)

9 Iced, or cooled artificially (6)

14 A plant widely grown indoors over Christmas for its red and green foliage (10) 17 The original pattern or model (9) 18 Ravenous, gluttonous, etc (8)

20 Edgar __ (1889 - 1977), London-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1932 (6)

22 A skin condition, usually affecting the face (7) 23 Fast-growing regional capital in northern

Ghana (pop about 1 million) (5)

25 A rich, sweet Austrian cake or pastry (5) 27 Science fiction novel by Frank Herbert

(1965) (4)