Telegraph GK x word. 11.6.05

[tobergill]

 1 down 13 letters.  The belief that matter has no objective existence, Bishop George Berkeley.

 6 down  10 letters. Essential part of semi automaton that was the talk of 18th century Europe called the Turk.

 37 down 7 letters, The action of twisting one end of an object in relation to its other end.

 34 across 8 letters   Hellenistic City on the river Tigris that replaced Babylon as Mesopatamia,s leading city 300BC

   Thank you in anticipation.

[shaneystar]

immaterialism
chessboard
torsion
seleucia

[tobergill]

 \Thank you Shaney   you are a STAR

[theneghan]

6 down : Chessboard

[theneghan]

 37d ; torsion

[theneghan]

34a seleucia