Cryptic
Across
1 Fossil resin hospital finally point
to at
Indian sacred site... (9)
6 ... a doctor in Western Australia
applied at Congolese outpost (5)
9 Chilly-sounding city close to the
Horn? (5,6)
10 Goodness me! Must remove cap
reaching centre of Kyrgyzstan (3)
11 East German in Gibraltar’s Baltic
base (7)
12 Zulu’s been led astray (7)
13 The French Department’s wrapped
up in mind-reading (5)
15 Copy vaguely old or new? Place
somewhere in Holland (9)
17 Where in suburban Tokyo one
eventually gets to romp at
a party (9)
19 Sound the water in Washington (5)
21 Break a leg, catching blast over part
of N Africa (7)
23 Mexican plant going pear-shaped? (7)
25 Cold Oporto air initially makes
Portuguese stream to the Douro (3)
26 Didst feed so artfully in such Welsh
assemblies (11)
27 Early English crook? (5)
28 N Carolina base for timber eastern
French town visit (9)
Down
1 A politician joins a radio station in
Italy in devastated part of Sri
Lanka (7)
2 The Cuban settlement torments (5)
3 Place in Virginia tree rings number
which is within reasonable
parameters (7)
4 Modified Dutch if Ankara’s failed (9)
5 Chinese province annexed early on
by barbarian (5)
6 Meander around the back of
Wimpole Street, a smart part of
London (4,3)
7 Chinese communist dogma zone
explained (3,6)
8 Greek and English force, in the sea
off Greece, classically evacuated
incumbent Church (7)
14 Bells sound around university
gathering in Chinese city (9)
16 New Jersey city’s old English
sovereign or the modern version? (9)
17 Figurehead controlled intelligence in
W Europe in post-Roman times (7)
18 Language coming from Myanmar’s
old capital seems curiously to miss
the point after bullish start (7)
19 Tramp, around five to four, reaches
Bulgarian city (7)
20 Listen to this African minority party,
girl (7)
22 Italian valley where neat Soave’s
kept inside, upside down (5)
24 Bikini exploding on the scene in the
Pacific? They literally used to make a
charge! (5)
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Quick
Across
1 Unique 11th century Hindu Temple
NE of Mumbai (9)
6 Important centre of Haute Zaire,
Dem Rep of Congo (5)
9 Southernmost city of Chile, on the
Strait of Magellan (5,6)
10 Second city of Kyrgyzstan, on the
ancient trade route (3)
11 German Baltic port (7)
12 Zulu of the old Transvaal and
Matabeleland (7)
13 French river, a major tributary of the
Loire (5)
15 Site of Het Loo Palace, summer
residence of the Dutch royal family (9)
17 Tokyo suburb (9)
19 ----- Sound, natural inlet upon which
sits Seattle (5)
21 Mediterranean state, the second
largest in Africa in area (7)
23 Mexican fruit tree from the Aztec
ahuacatl (7)
25 Portuguese river which flows north
into the Douro (3)
26 Welsh gatherings of poetry and
song (11)
27 Germanic tribe which invaded
and settled in SE Britain from the
seventh century (5)
28 Last resting place in N Carolina for
O Henry and Thomas Wolfe (9)
Down
1 Region of Sri Lanka badly hit by the
Boxing Day 2004 tsunami (7)
2 City of NE Cuba (5)
3 Appalachian city of Virginia,
approximately 200 km NE of 28 (7)
4 Dutch-derived language (9)
5 Chinese province, capital Changsha (5)
6 Part of London, roughly equivalent to
Westminster (4,3)
7 First leader of the People’s Republic
of China (3,6)
8 Peleponnesian Greek (7)
14 Chinese city of Hebei province, on
the Grand canal (9)
16 First English settlement in New
Jersey where Princeton University
was founded in 1746 (9)
17 Broadly, post-Roman W Europe (7)
18 Language spoken in the NW part of
the Indo-Chinese peninsula (7)
19 Bulgarian city, Greek Philippopolis (7)
20 1982 Sydney Pollack classic movie;
Rwandan sound-alike (7)
22 Italian skiing valley and town, 80 km
north of Turin (5)
24 Ring of surface coral (5)
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