Cryptic
Across
1 A sniper spells it out to one from an ancient world (7)
5 High-born Hindu place, where to send back urn (6)
11 Deep hole in India bordered on a part of Africa in the past (9)
12 The Flower of Poland – conflict at reflection (5)
13 There is Avar backing behind East German coal town of Silesia (7)
14 Italian town, East-South-East of French department (6)
16 British champion’s about to name West Bank settlement (6)
18 Caribbean island where delinquents get a round in pubs (8)
20 Swedish boy, American and a Kiwi, all start off in a place on Cuba (8)
22 Ring a girl in a Brazilian cultural centre... (6)
24 ...ring another, a busy type, about rainforest country (6)
26 A Shinto settlement in S Nigeria (7)
29 From chaos, tantalizingly, is sculpted this Italian valley (5)
30 A snake up to no good during a classic battle turns up in Filipino port (9)
31 Almost stagger upon the S American rainforest (6)
32 Lebanese leader leaves Bekaa Valley town with a little boy to go to an Iranian site (7)

Down
2 Torture, alien capture in this country? (5)
3 Canadian city where a Russian girl gets somewhat animated in the cinema (9)
4 Trojan Japanese work, cutting out Justice of the Peace (6)
6 Rajasthan fort where the French turned up to fight (5)
7 Left over country for Red Sea port (4,5)
8 This Asian is a real draw, they say (4)
9 A thousand go quietly in aim to surround a Japanese city (9)
10 A classical language, at home, is not used through the Baltic region (6)
15 Appropriately bid ‘Salaam’ to Asian city (9)
17 Hit the water near Chelsea... (9)
19 ...curry before we tie up, say, somewhere on the East Coast... (9)
21 ...and begin considering sleeping before getting round to the Tuscan site! (6)
23 Emu on a run to New Caledonia place (6)
25 The State house is beneath the mountain in Crete (5)
27 Muslim capital a good man from Spain built upon temperance group (5)
28 The island is German? Yes, Vice-Admiral (4)

Quick
Across
1 Farsi (7)
5 One claiming descendance from the original Hindu military caste (6)
11 Former name of Africa’s oldest independent state (9)
12 Polish river, a tributary of the Oder (5)
13 Moravian industrial city (7)
14 Town and region of the Italian Lakes area (6)
16 West Bank city of Jewish and Muslim interests, where Abraham lived (6)
18 Cricket-mad West Indian holiday island (8)
20 Previously a pirate’s lair, now a thriving Cuban port (8)
22 Historic city in Brazil’s Pernambuco region (6)
24 Ex-British Honduras (6)
26 S Nigerian industrial city on the Niger (7)
29 Town and valley involved in Italian skiing and cross-alpine routes (5)
30 Filipino port and iron ore mining centre, on Mindanao (9)
31 The world’s greatest river, in terms of water flow (6)
32 Iranian city, capital of Sistan and Baluchistan (7)

Down
2 African country with a 5,000-year history (5)
3 Capital of Saskatchewan province, Canada (9)
4 Hero of a Virgil epic; cousin to King Priam of Troy (6)
6 City of Rajasthan, India, noted for its huge fort and various palaces (5)
7 Red Sea port founded by the British in 1905 (4,5)
8 Siamese, as was (4)
9 Southernmost Japanese city, on Kyushu’s Satsuma Peninsula (9)
10 Lettish nation (6)
15 Capital of Pakistan (9)
17 London district on the South Bank (9)
19 US seaport named after an English lord in the 1660s (9)
21 City and province of S Tuscany (6)
23 Capital of New Caledonia (6)
25 The Gem State, the 43rd of the Union (5)
27 Capital city, regarded by Arabs as the oldest city in the world (5)
28 The world’s 13th largest island, but only the 3rd largest in Indonesia (4)

Big Bad World by P J Polyp