Cryptic
Across
1 Fight by a place near John O’Groats
and an English castle (7)
5 Final word to team before going into
Amoy of old (6)
11 Running wild, had a ball – a situation
which might appeal to Hindus? (9)
12 Old Greek place needs safety-first
approach after gas escaped in the
back (5)
13 Algerian seaport where a navy
embargo is backed by African
leader (6)
14 In between two rounds, fought,
capturing Spanish city (6)
17 Thanks said in Britain in Arabic type,
about Asian range (5)
19 One comes from Ceske Budejovice,
read German, and in US one
brewed? (9)
22 Hog boom so affected a city of the
Yoruba (9)
23 Native American at home:
acceptable object, perhaps (5)
24 Part of Borneo that’s finally returned
to British control... (6)
27 ...and in the Namib a Nicobarian
finds dialect they speak nearby (6)
31 A pretty dull flower from the
Pyrenees (5)
32 In vessel with Sci-fi writer on board,
north of Aberdeen (9)
33 King Henry’s evacuated British
queen is to pass through the Hindu Kush (6)
34 Mania he created at Disneyland? (7)
Down
2 Brando’s lead is gone off somewhere
near the Ardennes (5)
3 Puritan sentiments in Muslim iambi
Shaw picked out (9)
4 A little one in front of one of the
Greater Antilles (4)
6 Asian queen, one following a
republican movement (5)
7 A meal of sorghum gruel Royal
Horticultural Society doled out without E African capital (9)
8 Wickedness returns, English read
heroin is involved, in Serbian place (4)
9 Weekend sees a strike at a wildlife
park site in Michigan (9)
10 Food in W Africa, looking back, is
strange to English... (4)
15 ...initially officers, British all, serving
W African kings (4)
16 Parochial example of English top
cities changing direction from
within (9)
18 Conservative award given by the
British to marine in a situation on
the Isle of Mull (9)
20 US Democrat to question vehicle
used for Islamic movement? (4)
21 Duke’s Row is eastern Scottish
town? (9)
25 With no humanity, Viking invaded
France and other points of the compass (5)
26 One relative to the spirit of Egypt? (4)
28 Kenyan town employing many
Eritrean characters (5)
29 Channel Island school boat (4)
30 Where the Bard plays, it flows (4) |
Quick
Across
1 English
midland county town,
near 30 (7)
5 Special Chinese economic zone
facing Taiwan (6)
11 Hindu pilgrimage site in Uttar
Pradesh (9)
12 Classical city of the Peloponnese,
once the greatest in Greece (5)
13 Algerian seaport, formerly Bône (6)
14 Northern Spanish city and province (6)
17 Asian mountain range: territory of
Russia (5)
19 German for one from Ceske
Budejovice in the Czech Republic (9)
22 Yoruba city of Nigeria (9)
23 Semi-nomadic Arctic people (5)
24 Borneo sultanate (6)
27 Dialect spoken in Sarawak and other
parts of Borneo (6)
31 River of SW France (5)
32 Administrative centre for the Scottish
Highland region (9)
33 Mountain pass linking Afghanistan
and Pakistan (6)
34 Los Angeles suburb where
Disneyland was opened in 1955 (7)
Down
2 Capital of the Luxembourg province
of Belgium (5)
3 Creed of a puritan splinter group
within Islam (9)
4 Largest of the Greater Antilles (4)
6 Citizen of an almost landlocked Asian
country, a kingdom until 1958 (5)
7 Capital of Somalia (9)
8 English (phonetic) spelling of Serbian
city, birthplace of Constantine the
Great (4)
9 Michigan town and river (9)
10 Tuber of the taro plant, originally W
African (4)
15 W African rulers (4)
16 English word or phrase spoken
specifically in Britain (9)
18 Resort and ferry port of the Isle of
Mull, Scotland (9)
20 Arab sailing vessel (4)
21 British city built around the castlecrag
established by Malcolm III in the 11th century (9)
25 Scandinavian (5)
26 The Thames at Oxford (4)
28 Kenyan city to the east of the
Aberdare Mts National Park (5)
29 Fourth in size of the Channel
Islands (4)
30 English river name, in multiple use (4)
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