Cryptic
Across
8 Italian port British in row with, being
less than half Italian originally
(8)
9 Tartans sound right for these
nationals (6)
10 Fruit first picked from upper
groves, Long Island (4)
11 Precocious kid's hot stuff here on
the Danube (10)
12 Down in Maine, too? (6)
13 Beatific lady is accommodating to
Napoleon in the end, perhaps (6)
15 Resettles her, etc, moving to
Durham town (7-2-6)
18 Pass sheep coming back to a site
in Alsace (6)
20 Head into a morning set-back in a
Brazilian city (6)
23 German springs into a doubledegree
study... (5-5)
24 ...of madrigals, in part, here on
the Baltic... (4)
25 ...Sea – roughly south, within
Kiel’s boundaries, going around
the German city... (6)
26 ...collecting a second first-class
return, with odd lines about one
of the Polish-German marches (8)
Down
1 Old and young gather round chart
after gold in mountains described
(9)
2 Chinese city quarter one finds no
good, following article (6)
3 City of Aotearoa is created with
granite-edged coating (8)
4 State in India of New Hampshire
lad without China tea (8,7)
5 Canadian university measure,
understating a British award (6)
6 German royal line, in lager circles
(8)
7 Indian destroyer taken out of British
invasion without quarter (5)
14 Rip Penang apart finding French
community (9)
16 Poles capture digger before snow
transport detail reaches Russian city
(8)
17 Solemn, ie, sad, these folk had to
leave Florida (8)
19 Cell-phone centre in Alabama (6)
21 Prophet the Church put first after
rabbi (6)
22 No 3rd dan karate characters
found in W African city (5)
Apologies to all puzzlers for the misplaced black square
in the Jumbo
crossword (94) which will have
perplexed and annoyed many - the fault of
the NI rather than Axe. We are changing our
system for laying out the crossword grid
and can promise
that it will not happen again.
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Quick
Across
8 Italian Adriatic port (8)
9 Bohemians, eg (6)
10 Cross between a
grapefruit, Seville orange
and a tangerine (4)
11 Capital of Slovakia (10)
12 Towns in N Wales, N
Ireland and Maine (6)
13 St ------, British
dependency in the S
Atlantic (6)
15 Town in Durham,
England, on the R Wear
(7-2-6)
18 Capital of the Haut Rhin
department, Alsace (6)
20 Mining and forestry
city of Brazil, NW of
Belem (6)
23 German spa town (5-5)
24 Baltic capital (4)
25 Former Westphalian capital,
in Hesse (6)
26 Of the Polish region, once
Prussian (8)
Down
1 Study of mountains (9)
2 City on the Yangtse, on the
tunnelled railway between Hefei
and Jiujiang (6)
3 City and Region of N Island, New
Zealand/Aotearoa (8)
4 Mountainous Indian state, south
of Kashmir, capital Simla (8,7)
5 University based in Montreal,
Canada (6)
6 One from the capital of the
Brandenburg Hohenzollerns (8)
7 Hindu god, destroyer and
reproducer (5)
14 Capital of the old French province
of Roussillon (9)
16 W Russian city, often sacked
because of its strategic position (8)
17 Native Americans originally from
Georgia and Florida (8)
19 Alabaman Gulf port (6)
21 Name given to a prophet, from
the Greek to anoint (6)
22 Capital of Senegal (5)
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