FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD

Dear Reader,

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic we are suspending competition entries for all our prize crosswords. Puzzles will continue to appear as normal but no entries will be accepted or prizes given.

We hope to return to normal as soon as possible.

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

Stay safe!

Joy Yates, Editorial Director

Across

1 Skilled craftsman producing fine furniture (12) 9 An inviting or seductive glance (4,3)

10 Relaxation of strained relations, especially

between countries (7)

11 A large southern constellation (4)

12 To excrete waste matter (5)

13 The fifth satellite of Saturn (4)

16 A manor-house with lands attached to it (7) 17 Ivor __ (893 - 1951, Cardiff-born actor, singer,

composer, etc (7)

18 A pirate in Spain or Spanish America (7)

21 A bivalve mollusc with a ribbed fan-shaped

shell (7)

23 A sacred rite, as in the worship of Bacchus

(4)

24 Askew or awry (5)

25 To unfasten by unbolting, etc (4)

28 Small town in Surrey (pop 22,000), with a

fort built in 1898 (7)

29 A dish of meat, fish, etc, cooked in a cupshaped mould or shell (7)

30 Unable to fight (4,2,6)

Down

2 A mixture of mercury with other metal (7)

3 A large-horned mountain goat (4)

4 A branched ornamental centre-piece for the

table (7)

5 US state capital in the upper Midwest (pop

26,000), founded in 1848 (7)

A rapacious bird of the hawk kind (4) An American food fish allied to the tilefish (7) To change into a completely different form

(12)

Weekly country music stage concert in

Nashville, founded in 1925 (5,3,4) Shakespearean term for to pay for or

maintain (5)

15 A Fench mineral water (5)

19 A small shark of various kinds (7)

20 A colloquial term for an intellectual (7)

21 A dissident, non-conformist, etc (7)

22 A genus of shrubs of the vervain family (7) 26 A triangular piece let into a garment to

widen it (4)

27 The person who leads the prayers in a

mosque (4) 6 7 8

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