Factfinder's crossword 28/05/2011

Today's puzzle...

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1 William __ (1431 -1514), Glasgow-born bishop who founded King's College in Aberdeen in 1495 (11)

9 In law, cancel (a bequest) by destruction or sale of the thing bequeathed (5)

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10 Low walls along the sides of bridges, the edges of roofs, etc (8)

12 The SI unit of electric charge (7)

13 City in eastern Washington (pop about 180,000), founded in 1871 (7)

14 Small Swedish local authority, based on islands close to Stockholm (5)

15 The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words (9)

18 Former county town in north-east England (pop 45,000), with a university founded in 1964 (9)

20 A clown, or surly fellow (5)

21 Asian country (261,220 square miles; pop about 45 million), independent since 1948 (7)

24 A plant of the morning glory genus of the Convolvulus family (7)

25 American term for unleavened maize bread (4-4)

26 A written decree of the Sultan of Turkey (5)

27 A mainly woodland orchid of the genus Epipactis (11)

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2 River of south-east Africa, flowing 1,100 miles into the Indian Ocean (7)

3 The inner germ-layer of a gastrula (zool) (9)

4 An edible melon-like fruit of a south-west African shrub (5)

5 An infetious bacterial fever (7)

6 Town in western Slovakia (pop 90,000), with a 9th-century church and castle (5)

7 A Tibetan religious leader (7,4)

8 A deep sky-blue colour (8)

11 Fearn-born Labour politician (1884 - 1950), who was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1940 - 1949 (5,6)

16 A light cavalryman (9)

17 Relating to a specialised cell transmitting nerve impulses (8)

19 A high explosive made from ammonium nitrate and aluminium (7)

20 The outermost membrane surrounding an embryo (7)

22 An old term for nitrogen (5)

23 A lozenge-shaped object (5)

Last week's solution:

Across: 1 William Douglas, 9 Egg-bird, 10 Estrade, 11 Iconoclast, 12 Shoe, 14 Gento, 15 Anaconda, 17 Isomeric, 19 Assisi, 22 Lobe, 23 Broadsides, 25 Warrant, 26 Bee balm, 27 Peloponnesians.

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Down: Weeping-willows, 2 Leghorn, 3 Inigo Jones, 4 Module, 5 Obeisant, 6 Geta, 7 Ataghan, 8 Generalissimos, 13 Ecosystems, 16 Libretto, 18 Osborne, 20 Indiana, 21 Carbon, 24 Fado.

Winner: Mr I Menzies, Bridge of Earn