ACROSS
8        Cypriot port the French ran off by California (7)
10      See 26ac.
11      Bantu-speaking S Africans in gun riots (5)
12      French resort produces, some might say, kneaded flour and meat (9)
13      Where to find Zermatt – I pass SSW, turning left inside (5,4)
15      Warning device – deceptively lured sailors to their death (5)
16      Natural fuels, etc, that will eventually run out – refineries scout around (6,9)
19      Old Italian port: so it’s drunk at start of August (5)
21      They might provide sea views, help roots to develop (9)
24      Air transport used by Amundsen, Bird Leg II, crashed (9)
26/10 US national park’s glaciated volcano – peak subject to a higher level of
          precipitation? (5,7)
27      Rain affected biodiversity in Kenya (7)
28      Large Indian freshwater fish, a Hermes, possibly (7)
        
DOWN        
1      Spanish resort’s second-class country roads (6)
2      Riverbed in Ottawa diverted (4)
3      Invader of Rome gets different top – and this casual footwear! (6)
4      Midwestern state has a river by another Midwestern state (8)
5      Some junkie vacated Ukraine city (4)
6      One who works the soil used to steer boat (6)
7      And René’s touring département of France (8)
9      French Indian Ocean island about to get workers’ association (7)
14    Possibly ski at city in Alaska? (5)
15    Pole contributes to business out here (5)
16    A natural disaster comes from fooling around –Denmark’s leader brought in(8)
17    More pub licences, including Chechnya, say (8)
18    A society’s ways: awfully cruel, imprisoning leaders of trade unions (7)
20    Like the Zone between the Tropics: frightful – needs a new start! (6)
22    Anglicised French town’s lots of paper, we hear (6)
23    Planet of southern nature, possibly (losing energy) (6)
25    What a firefly might do at the end? (4)
26    Seychelles island turns up in Lillehammer! (4)

MAY CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS

Across: 1 Irish Sea  6 Atlas  9/19 Endangered species  10 Coin  11 Raptor  12 Undersea  13 Asteroid 
15 Hoopoe  16 Massif  18 Campsite  22 Leeway  24 Stag  25 Snowy River  26 Yalta  27 Disaster
Down: 2 Ronda  3 Seattle  4/20 Sugarloaf Mountain  5 Aground  6 Aided  7 Locarno  8 Ski resort 
14 Seaworthy  15 Himalayas  17 Senegal  18 Concord  21 Aosta  23 Arete

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