Crossword Puzzles - Crossword puzzle No.26

Saturday, December 1, 2007 - Crossword puzzle No.26

Crossword puzzle No.26

ACROSS

1. East of Beijing, the Eastern Qing ----- contain five emperors, 14 empresses and 136 imperial consorts.
6. Surpass.
9. The Imperial Vault of Heaven and the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests are in this Beijing park.
10. Benxi in Liaoning Province also goes by this name.
11. Pick up the tab.
12. This large library is in Guangzhou.
13. Fashion trends.
14. This Xinjiang town was a key centre on the ancient Silk Road.
16. China is the world's second largest producer of these nibbles.
18. This organization is dedicated to the unification of Ireland (abb.).
19. Order one of these with a margarita at Shanghai's Badlands.
21. Protracted.
23. Tibetan brew made from fermented barley.
24. The nine-storey Square Pagoda is in this county, southwest of Shanghai.
27. Hong Kong's oldest temple (3,2).
28. Nightclub.
29. This city is the capital of Jiangsu Province.
30. Fibbing.
31. The ----- fee to the Shanghai Museum is Y20.

DOWN
1. Yellow gem.
2. Kazaks, Hui and these people populate Qinghai Province.
3. Sharp pain.
4. Liaoning is the southernmost province of this historical area.
5. The documentary From Mao to Mozart, which focused on this Russian-born violinist's1979 tour of China, won an Academy Award.
6. Amuse.
7. This city is the capital of Sichuan Province.
8. The pipa and the yueqin are two versions of these traditional instruments.
14. Equipment.
15. Cantonese is spoken in this province.
16. Luxury transport used by emperors.
17. The popular eastern Chinese technique of "red cooking" uses a stock made of this sauce and rice wine.
20. Xi'an is the capital of this province.
22. Type of airport lounge.
23. Ship of the Gobi Desert.
24. The saying goes that of these Shanghai sisters... "Ai-ling loved money, Mei-ling loved power, and Ching-ling loved China."
25. Magistrate.
26. Graham Greene, author of The Power and the -----, once described "the economy of a novelist" as being similar: "... to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved."

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