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8 A UCLA cop is forced to resort south of the border
(8)
9 Great falls in Brazil when slimy creature leaves
N America to get copper (6)
10 Soviet power initially identified by American
senior (4)
11 Pyrenean type, using whip, almost on his own reaches
the Scotsman (10)
12 Rings to say hello in a note suggesting someone
from the Mid-West (6)
13 Conflict witnessed here in 1939? (6)
15 EC pontificates about right food to eat (8,7)
18 Love to get into Shakespeare, acting Indian part
from the past (6)
20 Cocktail given to abstainer, almost naked and
taken aback in Nigerian city (6)
23 A letter from St Maarten, or another Caribbean
island? (10)
24 He prophesied, coming out of Finnish part, one
might reach the sea in Russia (4)
25 British architect is asked to town in Brittany
(6)
26 Native Americans getting candy from the British
to besiege Ticonderoga at first, ahead of Wolfe’s first unit
(8)
Down
1 Copes here, in a part of space where one can
exist? (9)
2 Nothing about the wine here in Iberia... (6)
3 ...and I’m unable to tuck into the beer
in this place (8)
4 Directions to a French-CIA detachment lead to
old Namibian country (9,6)
5 Did he strike to left and
right about Europe in the
beginning? (6)
6 I usually in S America follow Henry to university,
and the African party goes to the Academy here in Peru (8)
7 A Church article pronounces Old Testament chap
a troublemaker (5)
14 Town here has links with Scottish university
(2,7)
16 Informed about hospital worker getting silk
from China (8)
17 Removing nothing, new hooka pot is smoked by
those who inhabit the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (8)
19 Ukrainian port, according to the verse, makes
a fool fall over (6)
21 State north or south, relative to 26, of course
(6)
22 Entry to Britain needs to have the date on top
(5)
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8 Mexico’s premier Pacific resort (8)
9 Brazilian river famous for its 275 waterfalls
(6)
10 Soyuz Sovietskikh Sotsialichestkikh Respublik,
as the West knew it (4)
11 Language and citizen of an autonomous region
of NE Spain (10)
12 One from the Buck-eye state, the 17th of the
Union (6)
13 Where the East European Mutual Assistance Treaty
was signed in 1955 (6)
15 Winter vegetables (8,7)
18 Former Indian princedom (6)
20 Once the capital of Nigeria’s Northern
Region, founded by the British in 1913 (6)
23 Island still under British administration, devastated
by volcanic eruptions in 1997 (10)
24 —— Sea, between Severnaya Zemlya
and Novaya Zemlya (4)
25 Capital of Brittany (6)
26 Members of a Native American tribe, the original
‘okla homa’ (red people) (8)
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1 Part of the universe which could support life
(9)
2 Second city of Portugal (6)
3 Province of SE Spain and its seaport capital
(8)
4 German protectorate from 1894-1919, eventually
independent in 1990 (9,6)
5 A Schicklgruber, b Austria, 1889 (6)
6 Old Peruvian colonial city of the Andes (8)
7 ‘The troublemaker’: Biblical character
so-called after found with loot from the sacking of Jericho (1 Chron
& Josh) (5)
14 Home of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club (2,7)
16 Westernized name for Chinese city and its wild
silk (8)
17 Variant spelling of Afghan tribe which straddles
the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (8)
19 Black Sea port, the scene of the revolt of sailors
form the Battleship Potemkin in 1905 (6)
21 New York building built by WR Hearst and the
site of John Lennon’s murder in 1980 (6)
22 The largest of Kent’s Cinque Ports (5)
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