The World News Crossword - September 16th, 2018

The World News Crossword - September 16th, 2018 - a crossword based on the events of last week’s news from around the world.

There are 4 puzzles in this downloadable PDF document:
(1) The World News Crossword,
(2) a crossword on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (from our book of Shakespeare Word Puzzles),
(3) a crossword on Croatia (from our A World of Crosswords series), and
(4) a crossword on Women in Science and Technology (from our soon-to-be-released ‘Women who changed the world’ book).

So, what happened in last week’s news?
A mega-hurricane. A malaria outbreak on Lombok Island. And an earthquake off the south-west of Australia. Needles in strawberries in Australia. Environmentalist in treehouses in Germany. And a whale in a stream in Madrid. London’s Mayor wants another Brexit referendum. Spain’s Prime Minister published his Ph.D. thesis online. Nigeria’s Finance Minister resigned because of forgery. And Italy’s Foreign Minister said African migrants are like slaves. Some Kenyans made a boat out of plastic rubbish collected from their beaches to highlight the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean.