Can you complete Geographical’s June 2022 crossword puzzle?
The first correctly completed crossword selected at random wins a copy of Philip’s Essential World Atlas – a comprehensive hardback atlas worth £25
Send your entry to Geographical, 3.16 Q West, 1100 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 0GP, marked ‘June Crossword’. Please include an email address.
Or email a completed PDF to [email protected] with ‘Crossword’ in the subject box.
Entries close on 21 June.
CLICK HERE for a printable version of this month’s crossword
ACROSS
1 and 1 down It’s famous for pork pies, but women try half ox and lamb mix (6,7)
4 Return some letters, all addressed to Texas city (6)
9 Are they strangely slow catching their prey? (4)
10 Waterlogged ground spoils hotel (5)
11 Old sailor heads north to mountain lake (4)
12 Common women are a Norfolk attraction! (6)
13 ‘Citadels’ is spelled different in regional accents (8)
14 New MP you miss at conference (9)
16 Peaceful section of classical music (4)
17 Worth following this in Texas (4)
18 A sonnet I’m composing about US state (9)
22 I’m leaving damaged ammunition on Everest, perhaps (8)
23 Cry of surprise about ailing tree (6)
25 Wine-tasting involving Italian variety (4)
26 I find new uses for my children! (5)
27 Initially District Attorney is standing on raised platform (4)
28 and 29 Strangely, men like Tony’s new town (6,6)
DOWN
1 See 1 across
2 Girl with a fever of African origin (5)
3 Oxygen is surrounding wild moss in biological process (7)
5 A 10 across could become a religious retreat (6)
6 Rule hasn’t changed for these Protestants (9)
7 Shifting tar must form layer of rock (7)
8 He supports workers’ rights, but isn’t OU-trained unusually (5,8)
15 Split pine – learn it lives for several years (9)
17 Floating wreckage of mast, perhaps, including top of light (7)
19 Currently in this place, though its middle is very remote! (7)
20 Subjects about right for equatorial regions (7)
21 Somewhat toxic, as in owning a gambling establishment (6)
24 Left Yemeni port heavily loaded (5)
Get the answers in the July issue of Geographical!
The first correctly completed crossword selected at random wins a copy of Philips Essential World Atlas, a comprehensive hardback atlas worth £25. For more information visit www.octopusbooks.co.uk.
May 2022 crossword solution
ACROSS
7 Acropolis 8 Mount 10 Jettison 11 Serbia 12 Inca 13 Egyptian 15 Neutral 17 Density 20 Auvergne 22 Type 25 Damson
26 American 27 Kelly 28 Pistachio
DOWN
1 Aches 2 Boston 3 Botswana 4 Pioneer 5 Socrates 6 Antipasto 9 Espy 14 Jerusalem 16 Thessaly 18 Entreaty 19 Tel Aviv
21 Gene 23 Prince 24 Paris
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