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1 One of the aims of South Park, perhaps, as reported in the west of Ireland (8)
5 Spirit in the style of African antelope... (6)
9 ...a fantastic creature a number grumble about, being from Africa (8)
10 City in Texas where extreme activists are secreted among people in recession (2,4)
12 University banquet connected to Italian city (5)
13 Essence of Iowa journal dismissing ancient city in the Bible? (6,3)
14 Shaka gets animated seeing Polynesian war dances (5)
16 Language of African former republic is key, initially a new South Africa in the making
(9)
18 Jewish people take years to find a good piano player (9)
20 Scottish lord who kept all his marbles? (5)
22 European place where a litre is drunk for a Commonwealth country... (9)
23 ...the beer ingredient finds a state in which both are embraced! (5)
24 Fellow marshal’s place in 22A (6)
25 Copper spotted in the middle of a yard with a church: next orchestra leader for this
Peruvian city (8)
26 Plant Hitler’s terror militia based on Michigan and Missouri examples (6)
27 5, for example, lunge at assault on Ugandan capital (8)
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1 A muck heap in SE Asian history? (9)
2 King Edward won in lap which governs the Shetlands (7)
3 The Spanish guerrilla region? (5)
4 Rainfall saga that’s poured out by Canada and the US... (7,5)
6 ...and we e-mail UK erratically from here by the Lakes (9)
7 Powder Royal Artillery steal in the borders of Arabia (7)
8 Bikini’s an example where there may be a charge (5)
11 She broke up in the 1960s with the Spanish king, somewhere between high and low spots
(6,6)
15 Kent ferry port’s steep cliff (9)
17 Wrong raw material for crack centre here on the Malay Peninsula (9)
19 18 may be one of many who obtains access to the South of France the back way... (7)
21 ...from part of the Ukraine and part of Spain? (7)
22 Beast of burden takes a military leader to a mountainous part of India (5)
23 Find gold under Scot’s settlement in China (5)
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1 County and town in Leinster, Ireland (8)
5 African antelope: 50s’ Chevvy! (6)
9 NW African (8)
10 City of west Texas on the Rio Grande (2,4)
12 Industrial Italian city, headquarters of the Italian Army during WW1 (5)
13 Essence of a plant of the caraway genus, used in medicine (6,3)
14 Traditional greeting dances of the Maoris (5)
16 Dutch-derived language (9)
18 Vladimir ————-, concert pianist and conductor whose name derives
from ‘Northern Jewish’ (9)
20 City and former county of Scotland on the Moray Firth (5)
22 Country, literally the ‘Land of the South’ (9)
23 Mediterranean island state, independent from Britain in 1964 (5)
24 Largest city of 22 (6)
25 Peruvian city developed by Pizarro, the site of the final battle for independence from
Spain in 1824 (8)
26 Yellow-flowering plant adopted into the name of Bormes, a resort on the Côte
d’Azur (6)
27 Hoofed (animal) (8)
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1 Former name of Cambodia, 1976-92 (9)
2 Administrative capital of the Shetland Islands (7)
3 Town of Alicante province, SE Spain, famed for its palm trees (5)
4 Natural phenomenon, divided by Goat Island into the ‘Horseshoe’ and the
‘American’ (7,5)
6 Wisconsin Lakes city, famed for brewing (9)
7 Goa powder, originally from the tree of the same name in Brazil (7)
8 Ring of surface coral (5)
11 Oil tanker that went aground causing devastation to the environment of Cornwall,
England, in 1967 (6,6)
15 Kent ferry port with links to Holland (9)
17 Major capture by the Japanese in January 1942 (9)
19 Extremely devout, sometimes mystical, Jews (7)
21 Historical region of eastern Europe, now mostly within Ukraine (7)
22 Tea-growing state of NE India (5)
23 Former Portuguese colony on mainland China (5)
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