Polymath 790 Set by Bradman
ACROSS
1Former captain of England
women’s cricket team, now a
baroness (6,6,5)
10A satellite of Jupiter (8)
11Of little or no value (8)
12A twelve-sided figure (9)
13An archaic word meaning
“equip” (7)
15Pseudonym of H.H. Munro (4)
17Assyrian king who invaded
Judah (11)
19Ancient Greek dramatist (8)
20Circular plates of armour (8)
22Formal university attire (11)
24Indian physicist associated with Einstein (4)
26Surgical technique to check
haemorrhaging (7)
27A fat and heavy person (9)
30Like a word obelised in the
OED (8)
31A low-grade iron ore (8)
The first correct entry drawn on
32Football film of 2002 in which
Tuesday December 9 wins a copy of
Keira Knightley starred (4,2,4,7)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and
DOWN
Fable. Entries, using the form below,
2Name of Texan mission noted
should be addressed to Polymath No
for a siege and massacre (5)
790, Weekend FT, One Southwark
3A sanserif typeface (9)
4A sailor from the East Indies (6) Bridge, London SE1 9HL. The solution
5The application of mathematics and winner's name will be published
and statistics to financial
on Saturday December 13.
matters (12)
6---- Marvin, guitarist with the
Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of
Shadows (4)
Phrase and Fable is a blend of language, culture, myth and legend. Edited
7High achiever in a boys’
by Susie Dent, this new edition contains an intriguing supplement of
organisation in America (5,5)
Brewer's Gems: facts, fables and curiosities from Brewer collections of the
8An array of particles in a
past. www.chambers.co.uk/brewers.php
crystal (7)
Solution Polymath 788
9A London underground station
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14A famous French landscape
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gardener (5,2,5)
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second world war (11)
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21Croatian port (9)
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23------- Wilcox was a producer
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of TV documentaries (7)
25Fabric with looped threads,
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making it knobbly (6)
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28A genus of tropical birds (5)
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29Monetary unit of Ghana (4)
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