FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

Dear Reader,

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The solution to this week’s Factfinder crossword will appear next Saturday as usual.

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Joy Yates, Editorial Director

ACROSS

1 A type of shark ( 10)

9 A city in southern Portugal ( pop 120,000), a

popular tourist destination ( 4)

10 A person who wanders about idly ( 10) 11 Begetting, especially of beasts ( 6) 12 Obsolete term for a spiked portcullis ( 5) 15 A walk in a garden or shrubbery ( 5)

18 A large kind of type in printing ( 5)

19 The clove genus of the myrtle family ( 7) 20 Anglo- Indian term for out- and- out good

( 5)

21 A member of a west African genus of

lemurs ( 5)

22 A horse pulling a light carriage ( 7) 23 English city ( pop 475,000), the site of the

Royal Armouries Museum ( 5)

24 The betel- nut genus of palms ( 5)

26 One of the minor planets ( 5)

29 Marcus Tullius __ ( 106 - 43 BC), a leading

Roman statesman ( 6)

31 The lintel or arch of a fireplace ( 10)

32 Vey long divisions of geological time ( 4) 33 The sea turtle ( 10)

DOWN

2 A square pilaster at either side of a

doorway ( 4)

3 A tapeworm larva ( 6)

4 The distance traversed between tacks

( naut) ( 5)

5 A mountain in the Bernese Oberland

( 13,025 feet) ( 5)

6 A small cod ( 5)

7 A puppet moved by strings ( 10)

8 A type of Italian blue cheese ( 10)

13 To impress deeply ( 7)

14 A junction between two nerve cells ( 7)

15 A native American people, historically in Florida ( 10)

16 Producing milky juice ( 10)

17 William Butler __ ( 1865 - 1939), Irish poet and dramatist ( 5)

18 Frank __ ( 1897 - 1992 ), an Italian- born film

director ( 5)

25 A regular series of calls ( US) ( 6)

26 A heavenly body with a very eccentric orbit ( 5)

27 Small city in southern Spain ( pop about 35,000), set above a deep gorge ( 5) 28 Small city in Tuscany ( pop about 55,000), a

World Heritage Site ( 5)

30 Scotland’s environmental regulator ( 4)