ACROSS        

1    Easily able to get around city in Alabama (6)
4    Too much of it could cost air passengers dear (7)
8    Distant part of seafaring (4)
9    Brazilian town’s backing number (5)
11    Initially, Zimbabwe’s unelected leader unites Bantu-speaking people (4)
12    S. African urban area needs time to possess craft (8)
13    Indian mixed spices mother’s getting in the French style
14    Strange hush on Japan’s largest island (mainland) (6)
16    Nut rowed round a wave’s back-draught! (8)
18    View mine (8)
20    Leapt around entrance to Vladivostok and Sea off Siberian Russia (6)
22    Ski resort gives 1000$ to troubled Sadat (6)
24    Fossil member of ancient Semitic state (8)
26    Czech city gets British refusal (4)
27    Grassland led off into Vermont’s limits (5)
28    ‘Garden of England’ chap on time (4)
29    Swiss Alps’ range inside flipping haven in Nepal! (7)
30    Guide Cortes at sea (6)

DOWN  
     
1    Mobster, so I foam horribly (7)
2    Element brought to life with oxygen inside (5)
3    Communal dwelling made from enough logs (not good) (9)
5    State gets less than half of Massachusetts backing (5)
6    Georgia, clutching A-Z, has to remove clothes in disputed
      Middle Eastern area (4,5)
7    Old astronomer’s log a lie perhaps? (7)
10    Hot air some high-fliers come out with! (6,5)
15    Kansas too wild for a place in Canada (9)
17    European range of modest oil production (9)
19    Book up national park? (7)
21    Auks, if great, are! (7)
23    Dove lost over northern English county (5)
25    Agree to family going up World Heritage Site of shrines in Japan (5)

JUNE SOLUTIONS

Across: 8 Hot spot  9 Deserts  10 Bursa  11 Panhandle  12 Reykjavik  14 Poona  15 Victoria Falls  20 Ebony  21 Lafayette  23 Mogadishu  25 Vines  26 Outback  27 Nigeria.
Down: 1 Stormy  2 Apia  3 Stop-over  4 Gdansk  5 Asia  6 Crude oil  7 Assegai  8 Hobart  13 Jetty  14 Peary  16 Iron Gate  17 Affluent  18 New moon  19 Red Sea  21 Lusaka  22 Tundra  24 Dram  25 Vigo.

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