Factfinder's crossword - The Scotsman 19/05/2012 - News - Scotsman.com By HUGH JOHNSON Published on Saturday 19 May 2012 00:00 1 Island capital and ferry port (pop about 9,000), a royal burgh from 1486 (8) 5 Small Speyside town, the site of five distilleries (6) 10 Choking gas left after an explosion in a mine (9) 11 Industrial city in north-west Italy (pop about 1 million), the first capital of the unified country (1861-64) (5) 12 Very early, roughly broken stone implements (7) 13 A morbidly ravenous appetite (7) 14 The fabulous hippocampus (8) 17 In Greek mythology, the daughter of Tantalus, who was turned to stone (5) 19 The Canadian porcupine (5) 21 Robert __ (1889-1945), American humorist who was drama critic of the New Yorker (1929-40) (8) 24 An abundant rock-forming aluminosilicate mineral (7) 25 A plate of armour for the shoulder (7) 27 A domestic fire or fireplace (5) 28 Citizen of a US state (77,355 square miles; pop about 1.6 million), also known as the Cornhusker State (9) 29 One who gains pleasure from inflicting pain on others (6) 30 Rounded wooden blocks, pierced with three holes to take a lanyard (4-4) 1 Cornfield weed of the chickweed family (6) 2 A badger-like genus, akin to the gluttons (5) 3 Any of a genus of Australian proteaceous shrubs with showy flowers (7) 4 Glass-annealing ovens (5) 6 Variety of corded silk (7) 7 A flinty chalcedony (9) 8 Suggestive of threatened evil (8) 9 A rascal or mischievous fellow in Ireland (8) 15 Stored green fodder in pits or silos (9) 16 A strengthening drug or tonic (8) 18 Town in the south-west, the last resting place of Robert Burns (8) 20 Threadbare (7) 22 One of the three former administrative divisions of Lincolnshire (7) 23 John Maynard __ (1883-1946), Cambridge-born economist who wrote A Treatise on Money (1930) (6) 25 Edward __ (b1928), US playwright who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (5) 26 A sweetish Hungarian wine with an aromatic flavour (5) Across: 7 Rowan, 8 Macedonia, 10 Utopia, 11 Boniface, 12 Quaestor, 13 Sura, 15 Isolate, 17 Snapper, 20 Edda, 22 Ethereal, 25 Honolulu, 26 Oviedo, 27 Keratisis, 28 Grant Down: 1 North Uist, 2 Campbell, 3 Aalborg, 4 Tennyson, 5 Forfar, 6 Fitch, 9 Dart, 14 Celandine, 16 Traquair, 18 Portiere, 19 Petunia, 21 Diotas, 23 Hook, 24 Woden.