MACROSS&DOWNzH[Q;1.2c MISTRAL.SOMALIAE.U.A.E.T.E.A.DSPRINGBOK.LAPAZA.I.G.A.I.B.L.E.INTERNATIONAL...A...O.T.U.N.ASIMPLON.SERFDOMI...L.....N...ILARNACA.SHELVEST.A.N.T.C...E.H.GLOBALWARMING.L.E.E.A.L.A.T.DICIER.SALAMANCAN.G.I.E.O.B.O.TEPHESUS.PRAIRIE-------.--------.-.-.-.-.-.-.----------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-------------...-...-.-.-.-.--------.--------...-.....-...--------.--------.-.-.-.-...-.-.-------------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.----------.-.-.-.-.-.-.--------.-------Geographical crossword (published by Geogrphical magazine in March 2000Eddie JamesMidis first trails destroyed by strong wind from the Rhone Valley (7)Take me to South Africa to see flat-topped hill (4)Part of famous Ur in America? It's in South America, actually (7)Andes possibly somewhere to practise your driving! (5)Textile ban only includes this Middle Eastern country (7)Country of East Africa sheltered by Burkina Faso, Mali, Algeria (7)West Indian island making street gear (back street) (2,5)Australian city is 75% Italian island surrounded by mountains of County Down! (9)Do a circuit then alight in this far northern country (7)Sounds like short commercials for an axe-like tool (4)Representive of South Africa good jumper! (9)Los Angeles Police initially need A-Z for South American city (2,3)(& 24/23) Crossed by day-trippers in the Pacific? (13,4,4)Strict US Mennonite sect decapitates Scotsman! (5)Endlessly easy on a pass through the Bernese Alps (7)Fossil totally conceals sedimentary deposit (4)Bells Iran forged for place in Snowdonia (9)Bondage deforms terribly! (7)Car Alan wrecked in Cyprus town (7)Elizabeths favourite US state capital (7)Large maps of mountains in N.W. Africa? (7)Quiet goblins create sandbanks and other shipping hazards! (7)Part of mollusc all open? (7)A volcanos opening has no right being on the Isle of Wight! (7)Environmental hazard resulting in a rise in mercury? (6,7)Unfinished dance by a large venomous snake (5)(see 11)(see 11)I have ruined rice, it being more frozen (5)Almanacs redistributed by a city of western Spain (9)US sheep damaged ancient city of Asia Minor (7)Extensive grassland makes air ripe (7) (moderately difficult cryptic clues)