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ACROSS 3 Squander (5) 8 Subside (5) 9 Monetary unit of Qatar (5) 0 four-footed animal (9) 1 11 fifth sign of the zodiac (3) 12 commensurate (4) 13 Wharf (5) 17 Bile-secreting gland (5) 18 young fallow deer (4) 2 Greek goddess of 2 mischief (3) 3 dispute heatedly (9) 2 2 4 nymph of Muslim paradise (5) 5 Lees (5) 2 26 Scottish river (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 1 15 16 19 2 0 21 DOWN feast (7) a cure for all things (7) Bizarre (5) ancillary (13) Scholarly (7) aeon (5) deluge (5) colossal (7) ambiguity (7) contrary (7) Suffuse (5) thigh-bone (5) company of lions (5)

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Can you name these characters associated with cannibals? In which books do they appear, and who are the authors? 1 On Mango island, in the Southern Seas, where chief Tararo was a heathen, this trio saw a fight. Losers were killed, tied seated on planks and carried to a temple. Painted with vermilion and soot, dissected and covered with leaves, they were baked on heated stones. 2 This king, verses told, was a man-eating African swell. Hed been told of a queen of a nearby state: Tippy-Wippity Tol-the-Rol-Loo, She would pickle deliciously cold And her four pretty Amazons, too. 3 This eccentric red-headed girl with unusual strength boasted that her father was Cannibal King of the Canny Canny islands. As soon as papa has built himself a boat he will come to get me and Ill be a Cannibal Princess. 4 Asked by his betrotheds noble father to tell the story of his life, he spoke of Cannibals that each other eat, the Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders. The girl married him, tearful about his youthful sufferings.

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