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    Feb 09, 2020 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1558

    Clues across

    1. Albert Einstein and John Lennon were advocates of what? (8)

    7. What is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, renowned for its malt whisky? (5)

    8. Which American writer became a steamboat pilot in 1859? (4,5)

    9. What comes between zeta and theta? (3)

    10. What is an underground structure where a missile is kept ready for firing? (4)

    11. The Italian painter Tiziano Vecellio is better known by what name? (6)

    13. Described as an engineering marvel of World War II, what 2500km route across Canada’s British Columbia and Yukon was hurriedly constructed 1942-43? (6,7)

    15. What is an excavation from which stone or slate is extracted? (6)

    16. What fruit is a damson? (4)

    18. What is the monetary unit of Moldova? (3)

    20. What oil obtained by boiling the feet of cattle is

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