|
Across
1/6 China’s men of clay, a major tourist attraction (10,4)
9 A mesa-like isolated hill, familiar in Colorado, Utah (5)
10 Capital of Austria’s Tyrol (9)
12 This country is the southernmost of the Caribbean Windward Islands (7)
13 The last in number of Rome’s hills? (7)
14 Ukraine’s main port, on the Black sea (6)
16 See 17 Down
19 Navigational aid that might be boxed! (7)
21 Country occupying almost half of South America (6)
22 Hinterland of the South of France, so called because of the fierce noon-day sun (3,4)
24 Nepalese mountain people whose young men are prime British and Indian army recruits (7)
27 Tierra del Fuego is off the southern tip of this S. American country (9)
28 Main city of the German Ruhr region (5)
29 Benighted description once applied to the continent of Africa (4)
30 In sub-Saharan Africa there are 22 species of this carrier of sleeping sickness (6,3)
|
Down
1 With Trinidad this forms an independent republic (6)
2 Its Europort complex makes it the world’s largest oil refining centre (9)
3 The centre of a Roman amphitheatre (5)
4 Japanese west Pacific island and its main city (7)
5 The site of Carthage is in this North African country (7)
7 Capital of Normandy with a famous cathedral (5)
8 Japan’s second largest city (8)
11 Mountainous, forested region of southern Germany (7)
15 Travel terminal (7)
17/16 Plateau near Quebec, scene of Wolfe’s defeat of Montcalm (7,2,7)
18 The Romans called this country Caledonia (8)
20 Winter sports facility – for those who are about to go downhill! (3-4)
21 Too much of it could cost air passengers dear! (7)
23 Alpine mountain famous for its sheer north face (5)
25 3000 of them make up the natural wonder off the east coast of Queensland (5)
26 Preferred sort of holiday weather (for one sort of Muslim, we hear)? (5)
|
