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Crossword #32

A quick crossword for people who sell Africa. 6 of the answers come from the lodges, camps and hotels we represent — the rest is ordinary general knowledge. Nothing to sign in to.

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1 acrossJournalist, unkindly put (4)

Across

  1. 1 Journalist, unkindly put (4)
  2. 5 Incendiary jelly of wartime notoriety (6)
  3. 11 Where the bread bakes (4)
  4. 12 Spanish-speaking quarter of a city (6)
  5. 13 Part played on stage (4)
  6. 14 The East, or get one's bearings (6)
  7. 15 Socially awkward swot (5)
  8. 17 The final departure (5)
  9. 18 Listening apparatus, or a head of corn (3)
  10. 19 Engine turns, informally (4)
  11. 21 Crafty and underhand (3)
  12. 22 Online booking agent, in trade shorthand (3)★
  13. 23 Family girl, familiarly (3)
  14. 26 Mark left long after the wound (4)
  15. 27 Country pub with rooms upstairs (3)
  16. 28 Fabric, or the clergy collectively (5)
  17. 31 Sort of, casually speaking (5)
  18. 33 Respect greatly, or a knighthood (6)
  19. 35 Admired from a distance (4)
  20. 36 Extra number after the applause (6)
  21. 37 How Londoners get about underground (4)
  22. 38 Cleared the flowerbed of intruders (6)
  23. 39 Sadly, in the old style (4)

Down

  1. 1 Vast crowds on the move (6)
  2. 2 Open declaration of belief (6)
  3. 3 Crunchy stick beside the dip (6)
  4. 4 Hinge halfway down the leg (4)
  5. 5 Airport code for Nairobi (3)★
  6. 6 Nocturnal African termite-eater (8)★
  7. 7 Noses into others' business (5)
  8. 8 Patch of ground, or a region (4)
  9. 9 Fluff from the tumble dryer (4)
  10. 10 Flutterer drawn to the lamp (4)
  11. 16 Glossy booklet of holiday temptations (8)★
  12. 20 When the flight should land, briefly (3)
  13. 23 Wicked, or deliciously rich (6)
  14. 24 Southern African gathering; Durban's travel show (6)★
  15. 25 Wire traps, or side drums (6)
  16. 26 Was upright, or bore it (5)
  17. 28 Work over with the teeth (4)
  18. 29 Solitary, like a bull elephant (4)
  19. 30 A single time, upon which fairy tales begin (4)
  20. 32 Airline trade body, in initials (4)★
  21. 34 Colour of the Maasai shuka (3)

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