Factfinder's crossword 04/06/2011

ACROSS

1 Lanark-born Conservative politician (1888-1958), who was Scottish Secretary from 1936 to 1938 (6,6)

8 A hypothetical subatomic particle (phys) (5)

9 A supplementary instrumentalist (mus) (9)

11 The candytuft genus of Cruciferae (6)

12 Roads for high-speed traffic, without tolls, in the US (8)

14 Branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning (10)

15 A recess at the east end of a church choir (4)

18 The most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles (4)

19 A device with spokes used as a printer in word processors and typewriters (5,5)

21 A seducer, from a character in Rowe's The Fair Penitent (1703) (8)

23 Situated farthest from the outside (6)

25 Groups of signs or symptoms indicative of specific diseases (9)

26 Industrial city (pop about 1.5 million), which was the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868 (5)

27 A forcefully reproachful protest (12)

DOWN

1 Male redstarts (9)

2 A breathing pore in bark (bot) (8)

3 A South American wild cat (4)

4 System which rests solely on experience and induction (phil) (10)

5 Vassals, or loyal subjects (6)

6 A gasteropod mollusc of warm seas (5)

7 Scottish poet (1476-1522), best known for Eneados, his translation of Virgil's Aeneid (5,7)

10 The process of decorating (a floor or pavement) with mosaics (12)

13 A muscular defect of the eye, preventing parallel vision (10)

16 A chemical substance secreted by an animal which influences the behaviour of others of its species (9)

17 A soft, fine-twilled cotton or woollen fabric (4-4)

20 In the US, a Spanish-speaking, usually poor, community or district (6)

21 In heraldry, an orange-brown tincture (5)

24 River flowing through Munich and into the Danube (4)

Last week's solution:

Across: 1 Elphinstone, 9 Adeem, 10 Parapets, 12 Coulomb, 13 Spokane, 14 Ekero, 15 Accidence, 18 Lancaster, 20 Chuff, 21 Myanmar, 24 Ipomoea, 25 Cornpone, 26 Irade, 27 Helleborine.

Down: 2 Limpopo, 3 Hypoblast, 4 Naras, 5 Typhoid, 6 Nitra, 7 Panchen Lama, 8 Cerulean, 11 Peter Fraser, 16 Carbineer, 17 Neuronal, 19 Ammonal, 20 Chorion, 22 Azote, 23 Rhomb.

28 May winner: I Millar, Edinburgh