BMag-2012 - University of Birmingham

38 The Birmingham Magazine
✃
ACROSS
Puzzles – Benefits – Giving
Competitions: Complete our tricky teasers for your chance to win some University merchandise.
1
9
11
16
13
2 3 4 5
14
18 19 20 21
22 23
24 25
1. Metallic element, used in alloys and as a pigment (6)
4. University city of Pakistan (6)
9. Football club who won the English League in season 1988–89 (7)
10. Surname of the German brothers who made a collection of fairy tales (5)
11. City of Japan which was its capital until 1868 (5)
12. Volcanic island off Sicily, famous for its sulphur pools (7)
13. Seaside resort in Sussex where King George V convalesced in 1929 (6,5)
18. One of the four evangelists (7)
20. Surname of the defeated finalist in the Ladies’ Singles at Wimbledon in 1992 (5)
22. The Bronte sister who wrote ‘Wuthering Heights’ (5)
23. Member of the Japanese military caste (7)
24. Colourless, odourless gas of the methane series (6)
25. Song of praise or gladness (6)
Competition
For your chance to win the five books
recommended by Mark Billingham on page
8 and a copy of Chocolate Wars, this year’s
Great Read at Birmingham, answer the
following question:
Which role did Mark Billingham play in the
BBC children’s show Maid Marian and her
Merry Men?
How to enter:
To enter the crossword and Sudoku
competitions, cut out and return your
completed entry (photocopies will be
accepted) to: Magazine competition, Alumni
Office, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,
Birmingham, B15 2TT, England by 31
December 2012.
8
12
10
15
6 7
17
© Brainwarp
Entries for the books competition can be
emailed to alumnicommunications@contacts.
bham.ac.uk or posted to the address above
by 31 December 2012.
Please remember
to include your
name, address,
contact telephone
number, subject,
and year of
graduation.
Terms and
conditions
apply.
✃
DOWN
1. Surname of the writer, famous for ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (6)
2. Italian musical term for the lowest male voice (5)
3. English cathedral city, known as Lindum to the Romans (7)
5. An early computer language (5)
6. The Japanese art of paper-folding (7)
7. Moorland of Devon and Somerset, much of which is a National Park (6)
8. Novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1838 (6,5)
14. Largest extant bird, a native of Africa and Arabia (7)
15. American inventor whose interest in early photography led him to produce the first
effective roll film in 1884 (7)
16. French physicist after whom the unit of electrical current is named (6)
17. Bluish-white heavy metal discovered by Tennant in 1803 (6)
19. Austrian composer who established the regular symphonic form (5)
21. Timber tree introduced into Britain in the 17th Century (5)
Bring the Birmingham
Magazine to life
Our free Look Deeper app uses augmented
reality to bring some of the features in this
magazine to life.
If you have an iOS device (Android version
coming soon), you can download the app
and scan the images on pages 32 and 40 of
this magazine to watch videos of the stories
featured. For other smartphones, lookout for
QR codes to take you to the videos.
The Look Deeper app was first designed
to modernise the front cover of our
undergraduate prospectus and is now
used across the University.
THERE IS MORE.
LOOK DEEPER.