Cryptic
Across
1 Secret plot by British Airways tomake
a base in N Brazil (7)
5/24 Comanche fret on break-up in region
controlled by the
French (7,5)
9 Sacrifice a large number – out,
(and Lawrence not finishing), in the San
Marino Grand Prix (5)
10 Edge of dress little girl fronts before
the French arrive here in Israel (9)
11 Now a bluer sort of political party in
Britain? (3,6)
12 Swedish actress is rubbish in
Australia (5)
13 In Britain, new town is a
collaboration between two
economists (first, informally) (6,6)
17 Zeus' court yon Pluto's mum
vandalized (5,7)
22 Dull article introduces a flower of
France (5)
23 Baron to allow church field in old
part of 13 (9)
25 Latino pal's lost in Andean
plateau (9)
26 With German, the Spanish reach
Zapotec city (5)
28 A Rolls-Royce, old/young, makes
very big cuts in the desert (7)
29 Sounds if Tuscan town has the
same colours (7)
Down
1 People of Yunnan are initially
Beijing-area inhabitants (3)
2 English statesman reaching the end
of the line in Otago (8)
3 British West African not applicable
as master in East Africa (5)
4 Estonians start to leave Baltic port
on the river, returning to a place in
Texas (7)
5 S American tange suits, say, a little boy (7)
6 …NAmerican mountains connect
Hagen and Lyle’s round (9)
7 Lot's the place to park vehicles around the
house (6)
8 Former park in SW England (6)
11 One from bank in Zurich takes his
cap off to Alaskan gold town (4)
14 Gauge of railway needed to go
around river years after Table
Mountain study (9)
15 Dear, to one's eye, and a heavy burden to get
university place in
Wisconsin (8)
16 Grey as Hungary’s borders (4)
18 Focus Scots on those living in
the 20 (7)
19 Stampede coolest cats in S
America (7)
20 Hausa harass invaders coming
here (6)
21 City in the Balkans where doctor
sees vermin returning (6)
24 See 5 Across
27 Non-consonant lavas? They are
found in Hawaii (3) |
Quick
Across
1 City and regional centre in the
federal unit of Maranhão, Brazil (7)
5/24 French border region (7,5)
9 Home in Emilia-Romagna of the
San Marino Grand Prix (5)
10 Town of great Christian significance
in Israel (9)
11 Blairite vision for Britain in
1997 (3,6)
12 Stage surname of Miss GL
Gustafsson (1905-90) (5)
13 British 'new' city, designed in
1967 (6,6)
17 Home of the gods in ancient
Greece (5,7)
22 French river flowing NW from the
Pyrenees into the Bay of Biscay (5)
23 --------- Park, British MI codebreaking
centre in WWII, now in
part of 13 (9)
25 Elevated plateau of the Andes (9)
26 Site of a city of different cultures in
S Mexico (5)
28 ‘Wadis’ of the American deserts (7)
29 Pigments originating from Tuscan
soil (7)
Down
1 Minority people of Yunnan province,
S China (3)
2 English statesman taking his name
from an uncle who was Henry VIII's
chief minister (8)
3 Swahili word in East Africa meaning
'master’ (5)
4 Trail-driving Texas town, birthplace
of Buddy Holly (7)
5 Mountains of S Patagonia,
challenging to climbers (7)
6 River and mountains of NE USA (9)
7 Capital of the French department of
Lot (6)
8 English heathland, the backdrop to
Blackmore's Lorna Doone (6)
11 Alaskan gold centre from the cape
named erroneously by the British
when charting the area (4)
14 Mountain geography (9)
15 Site of Lawrence University in
Wisconsin, the birthplace of Harry
Houdini (8)
16 Like this particular tree:
grey-white (4)
18 S Egyptians (7)
19 Leopard- or jaguar-like S American
cats (7)
20 World’s largest tropical desert (6)
21 Muslim city of Herzegovina, where
a landmark Turkish bridge over the
Neretva was destroyed in the 1993
siege (6)
24 See 5 Across
27 Scoriaceous volcanic rocks of
Hawaii (3)
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