Games

ACROSS 1. Point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake 6. The man who invented the cube that became a world hit, Hungarian designer, Erno ... 9. First person to circumnavigate the world in a balloon, ...

Fossett 10. New York World

Series baseball team 11. China's ... Zedong 12. West African republic with Conakry as its capital and chief

Atlantic port 13. Sweet sparkling wine from the Piedmont area of northern Italy 15. Soviet statesman, ...

Gorbachev 16. Wave-riding 18. Geothermal springs 20. Moving ice mass (Aletsch is Europe's largest) 21. US president's country home, ... David 23. London monument that stands close to the site of the Tyburn gallows, ... Arch 24. Flightless Australian bird 27. An ancient Greek one would have competed naked! 28. UAE sheikhdom,

Abu ... 29. Tennis champion,

Monica ... 30. Jazz legend, Duke ... DOWN 1. English racing town or sort of salts used as a purgative 2. Fast and furious sport involving a puck (3,6) 3. Florida swamp region 4. World champion ice dancers, Jayne ... and

Christopher Dean 5. Paris boulevard leading to the Arc de

Triomphe, Champs ... 6. Cricket scores 7. Dutch word for 'farmers' used to denote

Afrikaans-speaking

South Africans 8. American statesman noted for his efforts in establishing a cease-fi re in Vietnam in 1973, Henry ... 14. Final battle at the end of the world or the movie starring Liv

Tyler and Bruce Willis 15. CS Lewis Narnia tale,

The ... Nephew (8'1) 17. Door-to-door (hawker) 19. Term for conjoined twins fi rst used to describe Chang and

Eng Bunker 20. Archangel generally depicted in art blowing the trumpet that will announce the second coming 22. Mausoleum Shah

Jahan built to commemorate his wife, the Taj ... 25. Workers' body formed to safeguard salaries and conditions 26. Followers of Judaism