GEOGRAPHICAL-themed crossword
by Eddie James
published by Geograhical magazine March 1999

Across

1Midi’s first trails destroyed by strong wind from the Rhone Valley (7)
5Country of West Africa sheltered by Burkina Faso, Mali, Algeria (7)
9Gazelle sportingly representative of South Africa! (9)
10Los Angeles Police initially need A-Z for South American city (2,3)
11/24/23Crossed by day-trippers in the Pacific? (13,4,4)
13Not totally easy on a pass through the Bernese Alps (7)
15Bondage deforms terribly! (7)
16Car Alan wrecked in Cyprus (7)
19Quiet goblins create sandbanks and other shipping hazards! (7)
21Environmental hazard resulting in a rise in mercury? (6,7)
25Comparitively frozen, I distributed rice (5)
26Almanac’s redistributed by a city of western Spain (9)
27US sheep damaged ancient city of Asia Minor (7)
28Extensive grassland makes air ripe (7)

Down

1Take me to South Africa to see flat-topped hill (4)
2Ruins ma relocated in South America (7)
3Andes possibly somewhere to practise your driving! (5)
4Textile ban only includes this Middle Eastern country (7)
5West Indian island making street gear (back street) (2,5)
6Antipodean city is 75% Italian island surrounded by mountains of County Down! (9)
7Do a circuit then alight in this far northern country (7)
8Sounds like short commercials for an axe-like tool (4)
12Strict US Mennonite sect decapitates Scotsman! (5)
13Fossil totally conceals sedimentary deposit (4)
14Bells Iran forged for place in Snowdonia (9)
17Elizabeth’s favourite US state capital (7)
18Large maps of mountains in N.W. Africa? (7)
19Bivalve mollusc, some mollusc all open (7)
20A volcano’s opening has no right being on the Isle of Wight! (7)
22Unfinished dance by a large venomous snake (5)
23See 11 Across

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