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Polymath 793 Set by Gozo
ACROSS
1Most powerful of the Twelve Tribes
of Israel (5)
4Shady garden recess or a term in
euchre (5)
7Julien, hero of Stendhal’s Le
Rouge et le Noir (5)
10The first of the Ealing Comedies,
released in 1948 (8,2,7)
11Forename of the Brazilian F1 driver
killed in the San Marino Grand Prix
in 1994 (6)
12Treated cotton fabric with caustic
soda to increase strength and dye
absorption (10)
14German novelist who won the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972
(8,4)
15Second largest island in Shetland
(4)
18In the US, a minim (4,4)
19Customs officer who waited the
arrival of ships according to the
ebb and flow (8)
21Belgian town, the site of the first
British battle on the Continent in
the first world war (4)
22New town, headquarters of the
Open University (6,6)
24Edinburghshire; now a unitary
authority (10)
25Brazilian city, west of Sao Paulo (6)
28Royal official appointed to oversee
masques and court entertainments
(6,2,3,6)
29Citizens of the German Democratic
Republic before reunification (5)
30In Japanese cookery, a clear stock
flavoured with kelp (5)
31In Scotland and northern England,
fuel (5)
DOWN
1Biblical seaport of Palestine or an
eastern suburb of Edinburgh (5)
2Long-running Radio 4 programme;
its signature tune is “By the Sleepy
Lagoon” (6,6,5)
3The fountain of the Muses on
Mount Helicon (10)
4Composer whose keyboard pieces
were published in My Ladye
Nevells Booke (4)
5Market town and racecourse on
the River Wharfe (8)
6Scamps (12)
7In music, always; in the same
manner throughout (6)
8Turner’s 1844 painting of a Great
Western Railway locomotive
(4,5,3,5)
9Clive, former West Indian cricket
captain (5)
13Breed of cat originating in Angus in
1961 (8,4)
14Dull, routine (2-3)
16Seashore golf-course (5)
17Pedro Ximenes’ wine! (5-3-2)
20Submerged island now believed to
have been the Minoan civiliization
on Strongyle in the Mediterranean
(8)
23Greek god of the north wind (6)
24Voodoo goddess (5)
26Valentine’s twin-brother in an old
French romance (5)
27Standard monetary unit of Ghana
(4)
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Tuesday December 30 wins a copy of
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and
Fable. Entries, using the form below,
should be addressed to Polymath No
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Bridge, London SE1 9HL. The solution
will be published on January 3 and the
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