Across
- 1. Art movement pioneered by Picasso and Braque
- 4. Former name of Beijing, still used in 1900
- 5. War fought between Britain and South African settlers
- 7. First name of Maeterlinck, who won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 9. Scientist who discovered radium and polonium
- 11. Prize first awarded in 1901
- 14. Marconi sent the first transatlantic signal in 1901
- 15. Smallest British coin first minted in bronze
- 16. Distress signal adopted in 1908
- 19. Host city of the 1908 Olympic Games
- 23. Term for investigative journalists exposing corruption
- 25. First name of a Wright brother who flew in 1903
- 26. British protectorate, later renamed Malawi
- 27. Ship whose construction began in 1909
- 28. Car company founded in 1903
Down
- 2. Conservationist who helped establish US National Parks
- 3. Play by George Bernard Shaw, later adapted into "My Fair Lady"
- 5. First aviator to fly across the English Channel
- 6. American general who reached the peak later named after him in 1906
- 8. Women’s movement fighting for voting rights
- 10. Nickname for Roosevelt, popularised in a toy bear
- 12. Illusionist known for escape acts
- 13. Partner of Royce in a luxury car company
- 15. Country that gained independence from Colombia in 1903
- 17. US city devastated by an earthquake in 1906
- 18. Zebra subspecies declared extinct in 1900
- 20. London Square where a famous fountain was added in 1906
- 21. Russian writer and activist who opposed the Tsar
- 22. Russian assembly created after the 1905 revolution
- 24. Camera company that introduced the Brownie in 1900