February 2021

22 Buckden Roundabout February 2021 General Knowledge Crossword Adverts Welcomes ALL people living with dementia & memory loss together with their Carers All groups temporarily suspended until further notice HOWEVER, Join our club! Fortnightly Reconnect Zoom sessions Wednesdays 11:00 Contact Jo for details on 01480 453554 / Jorod.fisher@btinternet.com Carer Support Information available Phone Janet on 0770 2010594 Brampton Reconnect Social Group We are all excited about opening again, as soon as lockdown is back to the “ new normal ”. We will let you all know our plans for Reconnect, The Choir and Love to Move. We are also in the planning stages of some future projects such as: Friday Club & Golf plans etc and look forward to implementing them. Across 8 One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a large lighthouse built on an island in the Bay of Alex- andria (6) 9 A marine fish of the ge- nus Hippocampus that swims in an upright position and has a curled prehensile tail (8) 10 Nickname of the American tennis player Maureen Connolly, 1934 - 69 (6,2) 11 Musical by Lionel Bart, which premiered in the West End in 1960, whose film adaptation won six Academy Awards (6) 12 A republic on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa, formerly under French control (4) 13 A strong espresso coffee made with less hot water than normal (9) 15 Informal name for an electrician, especially in Australia (7) 16 Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (7) 19 Of or relating to the order of aquatic mammals having a stream- lined fish - like form, such as whales, dolphins, porpoises (9) 21 Disco and funk band co - founded by guitarist Nile Rogers in the 1970s (4) 22 Papal name of Nicholas Break- spear, the only English Pope (6) Down 1 Ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics part- nered by Jayne Torvill (11,4) 2 A legendary sixth - century Danish king who appears in the Anglo - Saxon epic po- ems Beowulf and Widsith (8) 3 US Tennis Player, first black man to win US Open (4) 4 A resort on the Portuguese Riviera which has one of Europe's largest casinos, built in 1916 (7) 5 A person skilled in telling anec- dotes (9) 6 A non - metallic halogen element giving a violet - coloured vapour (6) 7 Cartoonist for The Daily Ex- press whose regular characters included Maudie and Willy Little- hampton (6,9) 14 Tropical woody plant whose small edible seed is the dahl (6,3) 17 Country of origin of the long - distance athlete Haile Gebrselassie (8) 18 Crepe ___ , a thin pancake in a hot orange - or lemon - flavoured sauce, usually flambeed (7) 20 International sports company founded in 1924 by the German cobbler Adolf Dassler (6) 24 In Northern England, a stream or small river (4) Across (Cont ’ d) 23 Of hair, cut short and standing up stiffly like a brush (2,6) 25 Small slender long - tailed parrot whose Australian variety is called the budgerigar (8) 26 Lois ___ , actress who played Dr Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker (6) Solution can be found on page 25