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[email protected] Winner for 240: Anna Wastell, Dublin, Ireland.ACROSS
1 Gay: Ship (7)
5 Hastings: Strait (5)
8 Laughing: Guzzler (3)
9 Wine: Return (3)
10 Brown: And Spice (5)
11 Bitter: Chicken (5)
12 Walter: North
Carolina (7)
14 Irving: Wall (6)
16 Go with the: Of
Consciousness (6)
19 Many happy: The
favour (7)
21 Flaming: Awareness (5)
24 Trade: Pacific (5)
26 Middle: Of
Enlightenment (3)
27 Home: Ragged (3)
28 Sprained: Socks (5)29 Is of the: Of vanilla (7)
DOWN
1 Fallen: Falls (5)
2 State of: Tea (5)
3 Leonardo: Code (2,5)
4 Human: Reserve (6)
5 Saint: Thyme (5)
6 Old: Away (3)
7 Plains of: Lincoln (7)
13 Pack: Shelf (3)
14 Hamilton: Triangle (7)
15 Dirty: Race (3)
17 Soluble: Of Stone (7)
18 The Great: Valve (6)
20 Flinders: Finder (5)
22 Moses and:
Copland (5)
23 Sabre: With the devil (5)
25 Indian: Well (3)ASSOCIATION
WORDS 8
WORDSEARCH 87
SOLUTION TO WORDSEARCH 86
The 23 seas were: Arabian, Aral, Azov, Baltic, Banda, Bering,
Black, Celtic, Coral, Dead, Ionian, Irish, Japan, Kara, North,
Okhotsk, Red, Ross, Scotia, Tasman, Timor, White, Yellow.Find the 20 Russian
cities hidden here.THE
PUZZLER
Solutions here are alluded to by ‘association’ words or phrases, eg
ICE as a solution could have association words like ‘melting (ICE)’
or ‘(ICE) skating’, so the association words in each clue could appear
in a phrase before or after the solution word.CRYPTIC ACROSS
6 Party’s united with one the French
backed for Cameroonian place (6)
7 State in Brazil: there is no road in
resort (8)
10 Worrying precipitation in spate of
drugs? (4,4)
11 Ecuadorean city’s lead goes to North
and Central America (6)
12 On vacations randomly find a
Canadian... (4,7)
14 ...from Labrador settling for the
English countryside (6)
16 City that’s taken in the Indian Mutiny
conflict: virtually besieged by rancour,
looking back (6)
19 Wins big-time, as Americans might
say here in Florida! (11)
22 May the French constitution be
adopted by former African colony? (6)
23 Scottish adminstrative area’s chasing
twelve months’ rent (8)
24 Beauty, perhaps, one about to make
an appearance in Greek city... (8)25 ...one in the south of the country, note,
after scrap (6)
CRYPTIC DOWN
1 Irish veggie dish Con Conlan
invented (9)
2 Malachi hits dodgy bars in holiday
resort (8)
3 About to ‘allez’, as they say, landing in
France (6)
4 City on the Delaware River that makes
Nottingham cross, negative, upset (7)
5 Summit of Kazakhs over Russia’s
electing African not Asian (6)
8 Nice salad? (7)
9 American (the southern half)’s odd
civilization (4)
13 Scottish headland, east to west, seen
through apt arch formation (4,5)
15 After chest problem, getting close to
beriberi, is endlessly sick somewhere
in Georgia (7)
17 Unhappy ballad about a hot place in
India (8)
18 Name woman’s given to book is of a
statesman? (7)
19 Russian composer peacekeepers
lost somewhere between Kirov and
Perm (6)
20 Place in the Italian lakes the god
of war, during a day of victory
celebrations (6)
21 Early Americans came up with a type
of potato (4)
QUICK ACROSS
6 Capital of Cameroon (6)
7 State in western Brazil bordering on
Bolivia (8)
10 Result of airborne pollutants from
industrial emissions forming in
clouds (4,4)
11 Province of central Spain and its
capital (6)
12 One from Halifax, for instance (4,7)
14 English county favoured by Thomas
Hardy (6)
16 City on the Yamuna (Jumna) R in Uttar
Pradesh (6)19 Agricultural city, originally Hogtown,
home to the University of Florida (11)
22 African country, formerly
Nyasaland (6)
23 Scottish west coast administrative
area and former county (8)
24 Alternative name for Thessaloniki (8)
25 Ancient Greek city famous for its
military prowess (6)
QUICK DOWN
1 Traditional Irish dish made from
mashed potatoes and cabbage (9)
2 Group of about 1,200 small coral
islands (about 220 inhabited) in the
Indian Ocean (8)
3 French city on the Strait of Dover (6)
4 Capital of New Jersey since 1790 (7)
5 Asian language now generally
regarded as distantly related to
Japanese (6)
8 Pertaining to the ‘Queen of the
Riviera’ (7)
9 Ancient Andean (4)
13 Scottish headland, furthest point NW
on the British mainland (4,5)
15 Capital of Georgia (7)
17 City of Uttar Pradesh on the
confluence of the Yamuna and
Ganges rivers (8)
18 Citizen of the Sagebrush State (7)
19 Trans-Siberian Railway city on a
tributary of the Volga in the Udmurt
Republic of Russia (6)
20 City, province and lake of N Italy, near
the Swiss border (6)
21 Pre-Columbian power in
C America (4)CROSSWORD 241 by Axe
SOLUTION TO ASSOCIATION WORDS 7
ACROSS:1 Account, 5 Adams, 8 Tonic, 9 Memphis,
10 Current, 11 Rosie, 12 Calvin, 14 Clouds, 17 Maria,
19 Lagging, 22 Rodgers, 23 Ozone, 24 Norma, 25
Attempt. DOWN: 1 Attic, 2 Control, 3 Uncle, 4 Tomato,
5 Admiral, 6 Athos, 7 Sisters, 12 Cameron, 13 Ipanema,
15 Uniform, 16 Alaska, 18 Rider, 20 Ghost, 21 Great.SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD 240
ACROSS: 1 Episcopalians, 8 Ainu, 9
Martinique, 10 Crater, 11 Glen More, 12
Cambodia, 14 Linus, 15 Marne, 16 Canaries,
18 Antisana, 20 Angola, 22 Nouakchott, 23
Lapp, 24 Aleutian Range.
DOWN: 1 Eritrea, 2 Inuit, 3 Cambridge, 4
Perugia, 5 Loire, 6 Asia Minor, 7 Stuarts, 13
Burkinabé, 14 Lancaster, 15 Mendoza, 16
Craiova, 17 Eclipse, 19 Ascot, 21 Golan.80 NEW INTERNATIONALIST