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1 Savings; For (7)
5 John; Ale (5)
8 Vodka; Sol-fa (5)
9 Walking in;
Tennessee (7)
10 Electric; Account (7)
11 Cracklin; Huntington-
Whiteley (5)
12 John; Klein (6)
14 Nimbus; Of smoke (6)
17 How do you solve a
problem like; Callas (5)
19 Pipe: Behind (7)
22 Richard; and Hart (7)
23 Stratospheric; Layer
depletion (5)
24 Bellini’s; Jean (5)
25 Or die in the; On
Everest (7)DOWN
1 Flowers in the; Greek
Black-figure pottery (5)
2 Under; Freak (7)
3 Dutch; Sam (5)
4 Plum; Juice (6)
5 Rear; Halsey (7)
6 Mount; Count de la
Fère (5)
7 Pointer; Of Loreto (7)
12 James; Diaz (7)
13 The girl from;
Beach (7)
15 U for; Nurse’s (7)
16 Baked; Highway (6)
18 Rough; Haggard (5)
20 Holy; In the
machine (5)
21 Catherine the;
Portland Street (5)ASSOCIATION
WORDS 7
WORDSEARCH 86
SOLUTION TO WORDSEARCH 85
The 22 Italian cities were: Ancona, Aosta, Arezzo, Bari, Genoa,
Messina, Milan, Modena, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Parma,
Perugia, Piacenza, Pisa, Reggio, Rome, Siena, Trento, Trieste,
Turin, Verona.Find the 23 seas
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
1 Piano specials arranged for certain
Anglicans (13)
8 Greek character follows one dogging
a Japanese originally (4)
9 Island drink that French have
taken to (10)
10 One found in 18 adjudge to be in
credit (6)
11 Ness found here, running wild
erelong, Frenchman diving in (4,4)
12 One medic’s firm about cutting back
relief with the state of SE Asia (8)
14 Pope instigating laws is not usually
sanctioned (5)
15 French department is pelagic, but no
island’s visible... (5)
16 ...which birds give name to? (8)
18 Peak in Astana’s exploding? (8)
20 Country having a bearing on Indian
enclave’s blockading of port (6)
22 Indiscriminate hack’s not out –
there’s no point – to name African
capital (10)23 Drunk, journalist gets lost, being one
from up north (4)
24 Compass required to follow Pacific
islands’ elevations through Alaska (8,5)
CRYPTIC DOWN
1 Controversial era under flag returns
to African country (7)
2 Nice night, chasing after a
Canadian (5)
3 Crest on reversible raincoat’s
associated with British university (9)
4 One settled in Georgia after
somewhere in S America and an
Italian city (7)
5 French article dismissed Lorelei
madness in river (5)
6 This has no majority to support links to
the continent in much of Turkey (4,5)
7 Royal family members university
twitches about (7)
13 Polish moved over to Lincoln in
the end with family that’s West
African... (9)
14 ...this English family of York lost out to
another? (9)
15 Place in Argentina army carries little
weight, lawyer described (7)
16 Romanian city to mourn, it’s
announced (7)
17 See clip of the sun, perhaps? Not
likely (7)
19 Track, one associated with a North
British race? (5)
21 Heights in 20 are confusing, there
being no opening for ascent (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Worshippers of a church governed by
its bishops: Anglicans (esp in US) (13)
8 Indigenous, nearly extinct, people of
N Japan and the island of Sakhalin (4)
9 French Caribbean island (10)
10 Bowl-shaped geological formation
atop a volcano (6)
11 Alternative name for Scotland’s Great
Glen (4,4)
12 Part of Indochina under French rule
until 1946 (8)14 Second pope after St Peter (5)
15 French river, tributary of the Seine (5)
16 Atlantic island group (8)
18 Active snow-capped volcano of the
Ecuadorean Andes (8)
20 African country (i), capital Luanda (6)
22 Capital of Mauritania (10)
23 Finnic language (4)
24 Alaskan mountains extending into the
Pacific as an archipelago (8,5)
QUICK DOWN
1 African country (ii), capital Asmara (7)
2 Semi-nomadic Arctic people (5)
3 British university, its first college
(Peterhouse) established 1284 (9)
4 Capital of Umbria, Italy (7)
5 France’s longest river (5)
6 Anatolia in Greek and Roman
times (4,5)
7 Family of British monarchs,
1603-1714 (7)
13 National of a West African country (9)
14 Dominant dynasty during the Wars of
the Roses (1455-85) (9)
15 City and province of Argentina’s
Andean foothills (7)
16 Modern Romanian industrial city
on the site of Dacian and Roman
Pelendava (7)
17 Partial or total obscurity of the sun or
moon (7)
19 English town whose racecourse’s
most exclusive meeting was founded
by Queen Anne in 1711 (5)
21 ----- Heights, annexed by Israel after
the Seven Days’ and Yom Kippur
Wars (5)SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD 237
ACROSS: 8 Calabria, 9 Aargau, 10 Deccan,
11 Estonian, 12 Oaxaca, 13 Old china,
14 Langkawi Islands, 18 Pitcairn, 20 Europa,
22 Santeria, 23 Belgic, 24 Hawaii,
25 Alun-alun.
DOWN: 1 Galena, 2 Nanchang, 3 Granta,
4 Caledonian Canal, 5 Bastides, 6 French,
7 Japanned, 15 Adiyaman, 16 Acid rain,
17 Aurillac, 19 Cathay, 20 Elbrus, 21 Peipus.CROSSWORD 240 by Axe
SOLUTION TO ASSOCIATION WORDS 6
ACROSS:1 Ball, 3 Calvados, 9 African, 10 Norma,
11 Front, 12 Austin, 14 Rhythm, 16 Morgan, 19 Scrape,
21 Wages, 24 Tatum, 25 Telford, 26 Benedict, 27 Stud.
DOWN: 1 Beaufort, 2 Largo, 4 Aeneas, 5 Venus, 6
Darling, 7 Star, 8 Scotch, 13 One-sided, 15 Yucatan,
17 Oswald, 18 Celtic, 20 Armed, 22 Ghost, 23 Stub.80 NEW INTERNATIONALIST