GEOGRAPHICAL-themed crossword
by Eddie James
published by Geog raphical magazine Jun'02

Across

9Cook's craft and determined effort (9)
10One-tax sort of island (5)
11State of gym I own – awful! (7)
12It exerts a powerful pull on a larger ship (7)
13They're supposed to leave their abominable tracks in the snow (5)
15Part shale resort in Southern France (2,7)
17/19Mecca ran retail exchange on continental isthmus (7,7)
21Canary Island resort girl about town (Majorcan) (3,6)
24Tropical rainforest in Basel valley! (5)
26Man takes in direction for large church (7)
28Odd aroma in this country! (7)
30Know without reasoning there's no time for this North American people (5)
31Astoria CC trounced republic in 17ac. (5,4)

Down

1Kentish river we'd re-routed in a month (6)
2Men do not move here on the Alaskan Highway (8)
3Landlocked republic in Somalia (4)
4Davos gesture takes in French département (6)
5Eastern airport relocated in African capital (8)
6Principle of oriental philosophy embodied by Mayan god (4)
7Tobago mistaken for this South American country? (6)
8Airline gives a Lithuanian currency to one in Los Angeles (8)
14Ray is converted here (as was St Paul) (5)
16Equals, we hear, jetties (5)
17Bali / Como sort of country? (8)
18Some funny metrical lines here in Ireland (8)
20State content of mill in Oise (8)
22Sloping glacial plain brings beach content to ancient city (6)
23Emphasise the underground pressure that produces an earthquake? (6)
25Ankara rat-run encircles Turkish mountain (6)
27Backward French state's art gallery (4)
29Birds no longer found in Palermo aspidistras (4)

Solution