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Across
| 5 | | 20th C. French aqualung pioneer
and oceanographer (7,8) |
| 9 | | Inhabitant of an autonomous,
mountainous region of SW China (7) |
| 10 | | Former port of Devon, England now
a resort and yachting centre (7) |
| 11 | | Body art events held regularly in
Edinburgh? (7) |
| 12 | | Reykavik is its capital (7) |
| 14 | | Don’t starve in Seattle! (3) |
| 16 | | Name given to gigantic ice shelf
in Antarctica (6,1) |
| 19 | | Short for a diving vessel (3) |
| 20 | | Wind bringing heavy rains to S
Asia between April and October (7) |
| 22 | | Name of craft associated with 5ac.. (7) |
| 24 | | Town and nearby Monte in southern
Italy (7) |
| 25 | | First of the lunar phases (3,4) |
| 26 | | Geological deposit laid down by
water wind and ice (11,4) |
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Down
| 1 | | Area of the Great Plains region in
USA subject to severe wind-erosion
during droughts (4,4) |
| 2 | | US national park in Sierra Nevada (8) |
| 3 | | Town of Picardly, N. France (8) |
| 4 | | Backwoods President? (4) |
| 5 | | Wind of the upper atmosphere (3,6) |
| 6 | | Giovanni, or John, navigator and
first European to reach coast of
North America (5) |
| 7 | | Stretches of beach (5) |
| 8 | | French river on which Amiens stands (5) |
| 13 | | Croation city and port of the
Adriatic (9) |
| 15 | | Industrial connurbation of NE
England (8) |
| 17 | | Chief port / capital of Myanmar (7) |
| 18 | | City / railway junction of Zimbabwe (8) |
| 21 | | Afghanistan is its largest
producer, dope! (5) |
| 22 | | The biblical ‘Promised Land’ (6) |
| 23 | | Snapshot (5) |
| 24 | | The point of a crescent moon (4) |
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