Factfinder's Crossword
Across
3 Hebridean island, the site of Kisimul Castle (5)
8 A Hindu holy man, ascetic and mendicant (6)
9 A goldsmith's crucible (6)
10 West African country (481,186 sq miles; pop about 9 million), independent since 1975 (6)
11 The wife of Orpheus in Greek mythology (8)
12 & 29 Ball game of Basque origin, resembling fives (6)
13 A trained falcon (6)
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Hide Ad14 Treaty (especially between Spain and Britain) for the supply of African slaves (8)
17 Wolfsbane, or monkshood (7)
19 A fashionable dressmaker or milliner (7)
23 A long-bodied pig, typically red or brown (8)
27 Tropical woody climbing plants (6)
29 See 12 across
30 William __ (1897-1962), US novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 (8)
31 Hoists, lifts or raises up (6)
32 A prairie wolf (6)
33 An adulterant in brewing (6)
34 An upright stone or tablet (5)
Down
1 One of a tribe of native Americans in Nebraska, Oklahoma etc (6)
2 Canadian provincial capital (pop about 800,000), founded as a fur-trading settlement in 1795 (8)
3 East European capital (pop 2 million), the site of the remains of the Roman town of Aquincum (8)
4 A woman's short cloak, worn in the 18th century (7)
5 A mite (6)
6 Ancient city, a royal burgh since the 12th century, once a major whaling port (6)
7 A group of three lines in verse (6)
13 Ulysses S __ (1822-85), the 18th president of the United States (5)
15 & 18 A violet-blue dye (6)
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Hide Ad16 Jesse __ (1913-80), US athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (5)
18 See 15 down
20 US state (69,956 sq miles; pop about 3 million), also known as the Sooner State (8)
21 Dingy yellowish grey or drab (8)
22 A psalm or hymn tune (7)
24 A former kingdom of north-east Spain, united with Castile in 1479 (6)
25 James __ (1805-60), Hawick-born businessman who founded The Economist (1843) (6)
26 Props, shores or bars (6)
28 The lower world, or hell, in Greek mythology (6)
Last week's solution:
Across: 1 Ploughgate, 6 Abba, 10 Tarantula, 11 Riant, 12 Sayers, 13 Khaddar, 15 Star-gazer, 18 Haiti, 19 Regma, 21 Ivy league, 23 Biltong, 24 Dipody, 27 Chile, 28 Inverurie, 29 Akee, 30 Stereogram
Down: 1 Putt, 2 Ocrea, 3 Ginseng, 4 Gauss, 5 Thackeray, 7 Brandling, 8 Asteroidea, 9 Breach, 14 Asarabacca, 16 Argillite, 17 Zeitgeist, 20 Azores, 22 Esparto, 24 Dover, 25 Durer, 26 Herm.
Winner: Frank & Sheila Morris, Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline