GEOGRAPHICAL-themed crossword
by Eddie James
Quiz version of puzzle published by Geograhical magazine March 1999

Across

1A strong wind blowing from the Rhone Valley to S. France (7)
5Country in the N.E. 'Horn of Africa' (7)
9Gazelle sportingly representative of South Africa! (9)
10South American city (2,3)
11/24/23Crossed by day-trippers in the Pacific? (13,4,4)
13A pass through the Bernese Alps (7)
15Bondage in Middle Ages, etc. (7)
16Town on S.W. coast of Cyprus (7)
19Sandbanks and other shipping hazards (7)
21Environmental hazard due to accumulation of CO2 gas? (6,7)
25Comparitively frozen (5)
26A city of western Spain (9)
27Ancient Greek port of Asia Minor, now in Turkey (7)
28Extensive grassland (7)

Down

1Flat-topped hill (4)
2(one spelling of) South American country, formerly Dutch Guiana (7)
3Andes possibly (5)
4Middle Eastern country usually preceded by 'The' (7)
5West Indian island (2,5)
6Australian city (9)
7Far northern country of Europe (7)
8Sounds like short commercials for an axe-like tool (4)
12Strict US Mennonite sect (5)
13Sedimentary deposit (4)
14Place in Snowdonia, Wales (9)
17Elizabeth’s favourite US state capital? (7)
18Mountains in N.W. Africa? (7)
19Bivalve mollusc (7)
20Resort on the Isle of Wight! (7)
22Large venomous snake found in Africa south of the Sahara (5)
23See 11 Across

Solution