CRYPTIC
Across
7 Block volatile stream in front of European city (9)
8 Characters from Cadiz miracle reaching Turkish port (5)
10 Resistance force in backsliding, staunch old E German city (6)
11 Doctor belonging to us is about to find chap somewhere up the Nile (8)
12 Nurse a Renaissance city (8)
14 French marshal (including their month retreating) old colonial capital (6)
15 Classified place in N Mexico as ‘South West and East all in a whirl’ (7)
17 Independent journal in existence here in China (7)
20 One from place near 7 gets part in ‘New York, New York’ (6)
22 Odd Wellington passing out New Testament at random in African capital (8)
24 Girl’s name accepted in the Pacific islands (8)
25 Mediterranean Sea? Yes, a product of the Cannae geanticline (6)
27 Sounds like a sweet spot in Sri Lanka (5)
28 Moving a beach and finding a Sumatran disaster site (5,4)

Down
1 Classically, I love seeing a stream coming through Texas town (8)
2 Character from Uttar turned up in the Aleutians (4)
3 Colonial type? Brother, he carries one great burden! (6)
4 Old country in W Africa allows residence in time (7)
5 Land sly jab on Zairean unceremoniously (10)
6 Managed to get into square in Albanian city (6)
9 A number from Europe after ocean studies in Danish university college (6)
13 Harsh mountain north of India; finally gave up here in Pakistan (10)
16 Does it take a day to race to French place? (2,4)
18 Connecticut site for state-of-the-art port (8)
19 Citizen of this state brings shame on Kansas (7)
21 A malicious article exposes Iranian port (6)
23 Get first from London University and a capital place in Africa (6)
26 Need a Greek street map for Austrian town? (4)

QUICK
Across
7 Western European city, a major diamond centre (9)
8 Turkish third city and major port (5)
10 German industrial city, capital of Thuringia (6)
11 Second city of Sudan (8)
12 Tuscan capital (8)
14 Capital of Niger (6)
15 Centre of supposed (and suppressed) UFO sightings in the US in 1947 (7)
17 Kublai Khan’s place of government, now transliterated (7)
20 Spanish ------, Puerto Rican area of N Manhattan (6)
22 Capital of Malawi (8)
24 Island group in the NW Pacific (8)
25 Part of the Mediterranean Sea (6)
27 Sacred city and former capital of Sri Lanka (5)
28 Sumatran city, close to the heart of the Boxing Day tsunami disaster (5,4)

Down
1 Texas panhandle town, renamed after the state’s yellow rose (8)
2 Westernmost Aleutian island (4)
3 European, the name deriving from a Celtic branch of peoples (6)
4 Old name for Benin (7)
5 Former Soviet republic, capital Baku (10)
6 Capital of Albania (6)
9 Denmark port and its third city (6)
13 Interim capital of Pakistan, 1959-67 (10)
16 French city renowned for its motor racing (2,4)
18 Port in Sussex, England and Connecticut, US (8)
19 Relating to the 49th US state (7)
21 Oil-refining port of Iran’s Shatt al-Arab (6)
23 Capital of Angola (6)
26 City of S Austria, capital of Styria (4)