Factfinder’s crossword - The Scotsman 21/04/2012
ACROSS
1 Large monitor lizard native to Indonesia (6,6)
9 Relating to a large African capital city (pop more than 11 million), the site of Saladin’s citadel (c1179) (7)
10 The rudimentary shoot or stem of an embryo plant (bot) (7)
11 To plough up, or tear asunder (4)
12 Alloy of iron, nickel and carbon (5)
13 An engine bonnet (4)
16 The father of Odysseus in Greek mythology (7)
17 An ancient script (c 1400 BC) found in Crete (6,1)
18 Body on an aircraft housing engine(s) etc (7)
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Hide Ad21 North African city (pop about 300,000), created a free port in 1962 (7)
23 Bleak tableland in the Andes (4)
24 Dish of potatoes, leeks and spring onions, especially in Northern Ireland (5)
25 Conflict between two protagonists (4)
28 A small Arctic whale (Monodon) (7)
29 Climbing palms with very long thin stems (7)
30 A walking stick made from the stem of a prickly dwarf palm (6-6)
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2 John __ (1579-1615), Banffshire-born Jesuit priest, canonised in 1976 (7)
3 Provincial capital in Gabon (pop about 40,000), close to the border with Equatorial Guinea (4)
4 The river supposed to have encircled the world in Greek mythology (7)
5 Italian painter (1483-1520), appointed architect of St Peter’s in Rome in 1514 (7)
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Hide Ad6 Species of ox inhabiting some of the mountain jungles of India (4)
7 A tumour consisting of nerve tissue (7)
8 Orchids of the genus Epipactis (12)
9 An American species of Silene (bladder campion) (8,4)
14 Upright stone slab or tablet (5)
15 A tropical genus of dicotyledons, akin to the magnolias (5)
19 Wilful piece of trickery, or a witch’s spell (7)
20 Stepwise arrangement of troops, ships, aeroplanes etc (7)
21 An ancient oriental tambourine (7)
22 One who shows or feels no gratitude (7)
26 Any hard and compact kind of rock, usually basalt or the like (4)
27 An artificial oyster bed (4)
Last week’s solution:
Across: 8 Diamante, 9 Ashton, 10 Ararat, 11 Tutelage, 12 Peel, 13 Rhodolites, 15 Menorah, 17 Miniver, 20 Circassian, 22 Dhow, 24 Gaborone, 26 Aglaia, 27 Dimity, 28 Viennese.
Down: 1 Pierre, 2 Amarillo, 3 Unitarians, 4 Menthol, 5 Galt, 6 Chilli, 7 Congreve, 14 Orientated, 16 Epitasis, 18 Induline, 19 Minerva, 21 Cronin, 23 Orissa, 25 Onyx.