The NI Crossword
No. 21 by Axe
CRYPTIC
Across
1,9 Beforehand, aim was unsure – now terrorist
leaders... (6-7)
4 …Tontons Macoutes, perhaps? (8)
9 See 1 across.
11 Vegetation identification integral for 20... (7)
12 …integral in Mediterranean – fruit stone
identified (7)
13 First woman to hold a key – she’s got
out of there! (7)
14 Actuator of revolution – was Hitler one? (8)
15 He returned in a short jade wrap for the crusade
(5)
17 11 – the sunshine say? (5)
19 Stern barrier to British Rail’s potential privatization
in Wales? (8)
23 Able to structure French denial about Beirut (7)
24 Sounds like the fourth team are at Chester (7)
25 He’s seen in the galleries, painting in a 1960s
fashion (7)
26 Interior in the style of the French, in quiet Algerian
oasis (2,5)
27 Ancient Chinese-Siamese head-lopping trick (8)
28 Remove top from bunch to expose French fruit (6)
Down
1 Mine gold on a reef in Australia (7)
2 Mad Amin first – he believed in the presence
of the soul (7)
3 The final solution is made up of traditional
detergent (6,9)
5 Ruby is under 20 (11, looking back) and quite
small to greet the king (6)
6 Very loud jeers – no subtle doubting,
at first, of this president (6,9)
7 Goal about the last one to rebuild hut has
a bearing (7)
8 Submarine tobacco of the Sargasso type (7)
10 Position where alto is trying to reach Top F and
another, lower, note (6)
16 See 22
17 Sausage over sesame-top was the bane of Xerxes (7)
18 Ex-drinkers’ club, with nearly treble internal
membership, big in Canada (7)
20 Guatemalan volcano, as it pours into the Atlantic,
loses convulsive tendency (7)
21 Hangers-on shelter at revolutionary’s place
(7)
22,16 A daring Hindi plot picks out leader (6,6)
QUICK
Across
1,9 Popular ‘gang’ name applied to the Rote Armee
Fraktion, active from 1968 (6-7)
4 Citizens of the western part of Hispaniola
(8)
9 See 1 across
11 The 27th State of the Union – 1845 (7)
12 Green rock-forming mineral, known as peridot when
a gemstone (7)
13 She is removed from a war-zone, for example (7)
14 Despot (8)
15 Holy war (5)
17 Affirm or expound (5)
19 Safety bar at the rear of a ship (8)
23 Mediterranean country which obtained its independence
from France’s mandate in 1943 (7)
24 District of England and Wales, downriver from Chester
(7)
25 Simone ______ , fourteenth-century Sienese artist
(7)
26 Large Algerian oasis on the Niger-Mediterranean
trans-Saharan route (2,5)
27 Former Chinese entrepôt (population eight million)
at the mouth of the Yangtse (8)
28 The pineapple or pingouin (6)
Down
1 Aboriginal term for a reef, or water above
a reef (7)
2 Adherent of Stahl’s theory of 1720 that
the soul is the crux of life (7)
3 Process of tribal extermination (6,9)
5 Acknowledged as the first King of England,
871 AD (6)
6 The third President of the United States –
1801-9 (6,9)
7 Bearing on a compass reading clockwise from
due north (7)
8 Marine alga (7)
10 Relating to a young animal in the egg (6)
16 See 22
17 Battle won by Themistocles of Athens over the Persians
in 480 BC (7)
18 Canadian prairie province, once the domain of the
Blackfoot (7)
20 Volcano (3546m) and crater lake, south-east of Guatemala
City (7)
21 Annelid worms cultivated for the anti-coagulant
Hirudin (7)
22,16 Prime Minister of India after Shastri in 1966 (6,6)
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