Cryptic
Across
1 Canaries position tree across which cuts female (3,6)
6 Da Gama’s birthplace near Setúbal
is found in basin-estuary area
(5)
9 Tender part of Nigeria’s economy? (5)
10 S American individual accepted into Business Administration course during
a break in sentence (9)
11 One replaced gold taken from a Hapsburg to Croatian peninsula (7)
12 E European country’s a thousand ancient eggs (7)
13 Head of Government expelled from friendly W African country (5)
14 Oarsman in embarrassing land-locked state (3,6)
15 Heroin found with Gershwin, so rejected him when entering Japanese city (9)
18 Scottish flower grown from the first cutting – last
year’s dying edelweiss (5)
20 Berber tribe of Tunisia’s symbol of welcome, perhaps: matriarch gets
small British thanks (7)
21 Ices melting need form of support outside Italian city (7)
23 Place in Andhra Pradesh where naan art sadly produced about half puri (9)
24 Skill in retreating to Carpathian mountains (5)
25 Extreme Hindu upset leading Eastern ascetic (5)
26 Acre in Brazil got new capital? (3,6)
Down
1 City of Shandong province’s characters
pulled out from drill in yin (5)
2 Pole gets over English cheese (7)
3 Racehorse in the National (7)
4 Georgia’s position regarding French wine, specifically (5)
5 Calm as an ordered middle class brings victory to Wellington here (9)
6 Therefore, to a degree, storyteller’s not finished:
it’s about
the Horn of Africa... (7)
7 ... E African city in turmoil about state getting Russian water (7)
8 Hum on a vent provokes boozy sling manufacturer out East? (9)
13 Amish ban a wild group of islanders (9)
14 Big game hunting’s almost moral here in India and Pakistan (9)
16 Part of old England showing evidence of cart tracks? (7)
17 Quiet worker; or French port on the South China Sea (7)
18 Roman city in Britain encourage a through-road (7)
19 Part of Mexico where cocaine is extracted from plant when it gets brown...
(7)
21 ...beast of burden needing to clean up river banks in Mexico... (5)
22 ...Texan rallying point is nothing to the Mexican male when on top (5)
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1 Capital of the Canary Islands, on Gran Canaria (3,6)
6 Industrial port near Setúbal, Portugal, the birthplace of Vasco da Gama
(5)
9 Nigerian currency (5)
10 Citizen of a S American country (9)
11 Pertaining to a peninsula in N Croatia (7)
12 Former Soviet republic, capital Chisnau (7)
13 W African state, once Dahomey (5)
14 Enclave state within Italy (3,6)
15 Capital of Chugoku region, Japan (9)
18 Valley, along with the Forth, which makes up much of the Scottish lowlands
(5)
20 Tunisian Berber tribe, mountain range and town (7)
21 Italian city of Lombardy famous for its weapons industry (7)
23 Town of Andhra Pradesh, E India (9)
24 Mountain range, forming part of the Carpathians (5)
25 Hindu ascetic (5)
26 Capital of Acre state, Brazil (3,6)
Down
1 City of Shandong province, on the R Yi, south-east of Jinan (5)
2 Village in Cambridgeshire renowned for blue-veined cheese (7)
3 Concerning much of SW Asia (7)
4 French town on the Saône which gives its name to (mainly) white burgundy
(5)
5 City and province of the Castilla-León region of Spain (9)
6 One of the African countries disputing control of the Ogaden (7)
7 Capital of Kenya (7)
8 Asian state, independent of the Malaysian Federation in 1963 (9)
13 Northernmost West Indians (9)
14 Towns of Sind province, Pakistan and Uttar Pradesh, India sharing the same
name (9)
16 Unitary authority, until 1974, the smallest English county (7)
17 Port, Guangdong province, China (7)
18 Roman city in NW Britain, still with many medieval shops (7)
19 Mexican peninsula and state (7)
21 Spanish donkey (5)
22 Old Spanish mission, focal point of Texan independence in 1836 (5)
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