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The NI Prize Crossword
Win a copy of the latest World Guide reference book... All correct solutions received by the 27th of the cover month will be put into a draw - though only the winner will be notified. Post your entry to NI Crossword, 55 Rectory Road, Oxford, OX4 1BW, England; fax it to +44 1865 793152; or email a scan to nicrossword@newint.org Winner for 96: Revd Marianne Atkinson, Bury St Edmunds, England.

The NI Crossword by Axe

Cryptic
Across

1 Fight by a place near John O’Groats and an English castle (7)
5 Final word to team before going into Amoy of old (6)
11 Running wild, had a ball – a situation which might appeal to Hindus? (9)
12 Old Greek place needs safety-first approach after gas escaped in the back (5)
13 Algerian seaport where a navy embargo is backed by African leader (6)
14 In between two rounds, fought, capturing Spanish city (6)
17 Thanks said in Britain in Arabic type, about Asian range (5)
19 One comes from Ceske Budejovice, read German, and in US one brewed? (9)
22 Hog boom so affected a city of the Yoruba (9)
23 Native American at home: acceptable object, perhaps (5)
24 Part of Borneo that’s finally returned to British control... (6)
27 ...and in the Namib a Nicobarian finds dialect they speak nearby (6)
31 A pretty dull flower from the Pyrenees (5)
32 In vessel with Sci-fi writer on board, north of Aberdeen (9)
33 King Henry’s evacuated British queen is to pass through the Hindu Kush (6)
34 Mania he created at Disneyland? (7)

Down
2 Brando’s lead is gone off somewhere near the Ardennes (5)
3 Puritan sentiments in Muslim iambi Shaw picked out (9)
4 A little one in front of one of the Greater Antilles (4)
6 Asian queen, one following a republican movement (5)
7 A meal of sorghum gruel Royal Horticultural Society doled out without E African capital (9)
8 Wickedness returns, English read heroin is involved, in Serbian place (4)
9 Weekend sees a strike at a wildlife park site in Michigan (9)
10 Food in W Africa, looking back, is strange to English... (4)
15 ...initially officers, British all, serving W African kings (4)
16 Parochial example of English top cities changing direction from within (9)
18 Conservative award given by the British to marine in a situation on the Isle of Mull (9)
20 US Democrat to question vehicle used for Islamic movement? (4)
21 Duke’s Row is eastern Scottish town? (9)
25 With no humanity, Viking invaded France and other points of the compass (5)
26 One relative to the spirit of Egypt? (4)
28 Kenyan town employing many Eritrean characters (5)
29 Channel Island school boat (4)
30 Where the Bard plays, it flows (4)

Quick
Across

1 English midland county town, near 30 (7)
5 Special Chinese economic zone facing Taiwan (6)
11 Hindu pilgrimage site in Uttar Pradesh (9)
12 Classical city of the Peloponnese, once the greatest in Greece (5)
13 Algerian seaport, formerly Bône (6)
14 Northern Spanish city and province (6)
17 Asian mountain range: territory of Russia (5)
19 German for one from Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic (9)
22 Yoruba city of Nigeria (9)
23 Semi-nomadic Arctic people (5)
24 Borneo sultanate (6)
27 Dialect spoken in Sarawak and other parts of Borneo (6)
31 River of SW France (5)
32 Administrative centre for the Scottish Highland region (9)
33 Mountain pass linking Afghanistan and Pakistan (6)
34 Los Angeles suburb where Disneyland was opened in 1955 (7)

Down
2 Capital of the Luxembourg province of Belgium (5)
3 Creed of a puritan splinter group within Islam (9)
4 Largest of the Greater Antilles (4)
6 Citizen of an almost landlocked Asian country, a kingdom until 1958 (5)
7 Capital of Somalia (9)
8 English (phonetic) spelling of Serbian city, birthplace of Constantine the Great (4)
9 Michigan town and river (9)
10 Tuber of the taro plant, originally W African (4)
15 W African rulers (4)
16 English word or phrase spoken specifically in Britain (9)
18 Resort and ferry port of the Isle of Mull, Scotland (9)
20 Arab sailing vessel (4)
21 British city built around the castlecrag established by Malcolm III in the 11th century (9)
25 Scandinavian (5)
26 The Thames at Oxford (4)
28 Kenyan city to the east of the Aberdare Mts National Park (5)
29 Fourth in size of the Channel Islands (4)
30 English river name, in multiple use (4)

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Big Bad World by P J Polyp
Big Bad World by P J Polyp

 

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