Prize crossword November 2007
ACROSS
1 Island in the Baltic obtained real estate (7)
5 Philippine island peninsula’s embargo includes Air Transport Association, initially (6)
8/14dn. Humanitarians’ pact on developing European range (10,9)
9 Catches fish? Partial Ostend backing needed (4)
10 Discriminatory UN trade show (6)
11 African city makes Zimbabwe’s leader bar Nazi broadcast (8)
12 Southern French city is excessively free and easy, some might say! (8)
14 Like a bog spoils Hungary’s boundaries (6)
15 Fix a country’s main commodity (6)
17 French port providing 2/3 of French bowls – gone haywire! (8)
19 Caribbean city from which monarch’s not returning (8)
21 Turkic people start wandering around Asia, initially (6)
23 One foot in the grave in Carthage dig? (4)
24 Here in New York, desire is real estate (4,6)
25 Indian state making nothing with fancy saris (6)
26 Awful scene after British Airways u-turn shows a lack of presence (7)
DOWN
1 Cereal plant needs good wet spell (5)
2 Highly placed canvas in the main? (7)
3 Possibly getting euro out at French highway? (9)
4 Light rain – cry fretfully “top needs changing!” (7)
5 Describe Nineveh: in part a Nigerian province (5)
6 Extra spicy North African port (7)
7 Revolutionary shrank at a port on the Caspian Sea (9)
13 Love universal release mechanism canoe stabiliser! (9)
14 See 8ac.
16 One deity in Pennsylvania’s Asian temples (7)
17 Creek that sparked the Klondike rush, one found at back of Bonn A-Z possibly (7)
18 Bunting in Oporto landscape (7)
20 City of Oklahoma sets up a loose woman (5)
22 Andes possibly somewhere to practice shooting? (5)
AUGUST CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS
Across: 7 Colombo 9 Inshore 10 Navigator 11 Banff 12 River 14 Emigrates 16 Globalization 21 Eastwards 24 Petra 25 Pecan 27 Algeciras 29 Simplon 30 Tallinn.
Down: 1 Slav 2 Bottle 3 Biarritz 4 Isobar 5 Fohn 6 Belfast 7 Cunard 8 Maghreb 13 Volos 15 Trout 17 Lorraine 18 Topical 19 Tempest 20 Carson 22 Winkle 23 Sights 26 Como 28 Rain.
The first correctly completed crossword wins a copy of the Philip’s Universal Atlas of the World worth £90. This large-format hardback atlas has more maps than any other atlas published in English today. For further details, visit www.philips-maps.co.uk.
Send entries to Geographical Crossword, Circle Publishing, One Victoria Villas, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2GW.
1 Island in the Baltic obtained real estate (7)
5 Philippine island peninsula’s embargo includes Air Transport Association, initially (6)
8/14dn. Humanitarians’ pact on developing European range (10,9)
9 Catches fish? Partial Ostend backing needed (4)
10 Discriminatory UN trade show (6)
11 African city makes Zimbabwe’s leader bar Nazi broadcast (8)
12 Southern French city is excessively free and easy, some might say! (8)
14 Like a bog spoils Hungary’s boundaries (6)
15 Fix a country’s main commodity (6)
17 French port providing 2/3 of French bowls – gone haywire! (8)
19 Caribbean city from which monarch’s not returning (8)
21 Turkic people start wandering around Asia, initially (6)
23 One foot in the grave in Carthage dig? (4)
24 Here in New York, desire is real estate (4,6)
25 Indian state making nothing with fancy saris (6)
26 Awful scene after British Airways u-turn shows a lack of presence (7)
DOWN
1 Cereal plant needs good wet spell (5)
2 Highly placed canvas in the main? (7)
3 Possibly getting euro out at French highway? (9)
4 Light rain – cry fretfully “top needs changing!” (7)
5 Describe Nineveh: in part a Nigerian province (5)
6 Extra spicy North African port (7)
7 Revolutionary shrank at a port on the Caspian Sea (9)
13 Love universal release mechanism canoe stabiliser! (9)
14 See 8ac.
16 One deity in Pennsylvania’s Asian temples (7)
17 Creek that sparked the Klondike rush, one found at back of Bonn A-Z possibly (7)
18 Bunting in Oporto landscape (7)
20 City of Oklahoma sets up a loose woman (5)
22 Andes possibly somewhere to practice shooting? (5)
AUGUST CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS
Across: 7 Colombo 9 Inshore 10 Navigator 11 Banff 12 River 14 Emigrates 16 Globalization 21 Eastwards 24 Petra 25 Pecan 27 Algeciras 29 Simplon 30 Tallinn.
Down: 1 Slav 2 Bottle 3 Biarritz 4 Isobar 5 Fohn 6 Belfast 7 Cunard 8 Maghreb 13 Volos 15 Trout 17 Lorraine 18 Topical 19 Tempest 20 Carson 22 Winkle 23 Sights 26 Como 28 Rain.
The first correctly completed crossword wins a copy of the Philip’s Universal Atlas of the World worth £90. This large-format hardback atlas has more maps than any other atlas published in English today. For further details, visit www.philips-maps.co.uk.
Send entries to Geographical Crossword, Circle Publishing, One Victoria Villas, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2GW.
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