Across
- 2. Another name for the aardvark (3,4)
- 8. The modern name for ancient Thebes
- 10. Opera house in Paris's 9th arrondissement
- 13. City and oblast in western Siberia
- 14. Chemical element, atomic number 70
- 17. Jason's ship
- 18. Grape variety also known as primitivo
- 19. A city in French Guiana - or a model of Porsche
- 20. A category of Scottish hills devised by Andrew Dempster
Down
- 1. Italian city, home to La Scala
- 3. The __, novel by Michael Ondaatje (7,7)
- 4. City near Los Angeles, home to several movie studios
- 5. A type of bird - or a problem to which Gordius found a solution
- 6. __ Abbey, near Monk's Bridge in Cumbria
- 7. Architect who designed the layout for Covent Garden in the 1630s
- 9. Type of salamander, the adult version of an eft
- 11. Nought to __, common performance measure in the car industry
- 12. 1997 movie based on an 1839 slave mutiny
- 15. Island in the Inner Hebrides
- 16. Castrated