Across
- 2. What instrument is used to measure wind speed?
- 6. What is the world's largest living rodent?
- 11. Which blue-green colour shares its name with a gemstone?
- 12. What type of fraudulent investment scheme takes its name from an Italian-born swindler called Charles?
- 14. Which tart-tasting plant is eaten for its thick red or green stalks while its leaves are poisonous?
- 15. What is the anatomical name for the collarbone?
- 16. Which Dickens character trains a group of children to become pickpockets in Oliver Twist?
- 17. What nickname is given to the young pickpocket Jack Dawkins in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist?
- 18. Which 1983 Heathrow robbery unexpectedly netted the thieves tonnes of gold bullion?
- 20. What is the largest moon of Saturn?
- 21. What tiny shrimp-like crustaceans form a major part of the Antarctic food chain?
- 23. Which breed of horse is particularly known for its distinctive spotted coat?
- 26. What is the surname of Sherlock Holmes's criminal mastermind nemesis Professor James?
- 29. Which basic taste is particularly associated with glutamates and savoury foods?
- 30. What word describes either of the two times each year when day and night are approximately equal in length?
- 32. Which fictional criminal mastermind is played by George Clooney in the Ocean's film series?
- 33. What term describes a recurrent uncontrollable urge to steal items?
- 34. Which herb is a traditional key flavouring in béarnaise sauce?
- 35. What geographical measurement tells you how far north or south of the Equator a place is?
- 36. What red spice is traditionally made by grinding dried peppers?
- 37. Which chemical element was first identified in the Sun's spectrum before being discovered on Earth?
Down
- 1. What Roman defensive structure stretches across the north of England from coast to coast?
- 3. What name is used for the unidentified man who hijacked an American airliner in 1971 and vanished after parachuting from it?
- 4. What name is given to the central wedge-shaped stone at the top of an arch?
- 5. Which Croatian city on the Adriatic coast is nicknamed the Pearl of the Adriatic?
- 7. What confection is traditionally made principally from almonds and sugar?
- 8. What type of poem traditionally consists of fourteen lines?
- 9. What hot wind blows northwards from the Sahara across the Mediterranean?
- 10. Which mathematician gives his name to the sequence beginning 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8?
- 13. What geographical term describes a group or chain of islands?
- 19. What cave formation hangs down from the ceiling rather than growing upward from the floor?
- 22. Which former maximum-security prison sits on an island in San Francisco Bay?
- 24. What lines on a weather map connect places with equal atmospheric pressure?
- 25. Which Australian island is separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait?
- 27. Which small Australian marsupial is particularly associated with Rottnest Island?
- 28. Which American gangster was killed outside Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934?
- 31. Which purpose-built city became the capital of Brazil in 1960?
- 33. What is the name of the mysterious criminal mastermind at the centre of The Usual Suspects?
- 34. What Indonesian food is made from fermented soybeans pressed into a firm cake?
- 35. What surname belongs to Maurice Leblanc's fictional French gentleman thief Arsène?