Is there no end to the skills of former KES pupils? Edmund Lyon, who attended our school from 1944 to-1950 has been a main puzzle contributor to the major magazine and comic publishers D. C. Thomson in Dundee for the last 55 years, during which time he has supplied them with almost 12,000 puzzles of all kinds!
Now aged 87, he has compiled a special quizword for fellow Old Lennensians, which he hopes will engage and entertain us during these lockdown times.
Thank you, Eddie!
PS: The solution will be posted tomorrow.
Here is the puzzle:
When completed the letters in the shaded squares can be made into the name of a celebrated 18th century painter (6 & 12)
Across
1 Flat-bottomed craft of Orient waterways (6)
4 Silver-white metallic element Atomic number 78 (8)
7 City opposite Khartoum in central Sudan (8)
9 Which word can precede gum, lamp & level? (6)
12 Of or relating to audible sound (5)
13 Nationality of High Renaissance architect Donato Bramante (1444 – 1514) (7)
14 Latin phrase for this special purpose (2 & 3)
16 Nail found in a cobra den (4)
18 Greek island whose capital is Khania (5)
20 Surname of author of The Good Companions (1929) (9)
24 Northwestern US state; capital Boise (5)
26 Linear units formerly used to measure cloth (4)
28 Any of a class of woodland gods or demons in Greek mythology (5)
31 A systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject (7)
32 Tool for boring wood (5)
34 The study of eggs (6)
35 Big intro for a revolving planet (8)
36 Danish setting of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet (8)
37 Adopted surname of British writer Eric Arthur Blair (6)
Down
1 Mechanical controls on a musical organ (5)
2 Vogue was a 1990 No 1 hit for this US pop star (7)
3 Continent in which are the Atlas mountains (6)
4 The leaf of the betel palm (3)
5 Mostly very fast terpsichorean style (3 & 5)
6 The crewmen on the HMS Bounty in 1789 (9)
8 Which word will complete: st—-, se—- & mon—-? (4)
10 Longest river in western Europe (5)
11 Small embroidered loop forming an ornamental edging (5)
15 Welsh diminutive of David (3)
16 Ancient name for sulphur (9)
17 Letters denoting a Doctor of Philosophy (3)
19 Cereal grass of the genus Secale (3)
21 Unit of radiation dosage named after a German physicist (8)
22 Lease for artists equipment (5)
23 Secular (3)
25 Third largest satellite of the planet Uranus (5)
27 Low-grade brownish-black coal (7)
29 Title of former rulers of Russia (4)
30 Repair the old weapon (6)
33 A bright double star in the constellation Orion (5)
35 A classic poem from Modena (3)
