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Across

    6  Piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body (7)

    7  Throw with great effort (5)

    9  Median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly (4)

  10  Resident in or native of a town in the north-east of Scotland, centre of the offshore North Sea oil industry (10)

  11  Twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus (8)

  13  Downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles (6)

  15  Sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born (4)

  17  Sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers (5)

  18  Acquire or deserve by one’s efforts or actions (4)

  19  Decorate (6)

  20  One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada (8)

  23  Romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (10)

  26  Person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord (4)

  27  Any large deep body of water (5)

  28  Largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas centre and a technology centre for Alberta and most of western Canada (7)

Down

    1  Admirer of England and things English (10)

    2  Capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas (6)

    3  Segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain (4)

    4  Former name of a landlocked republic in south central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980 (8)

    5  Expletive used informally as an intensifier (4)

    6  Short high tone produced as a signal or warning (5)

    8  Attract (7)

  12  Bundle of straw laid straight ready for thatching (5)

  14  Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover New Zealand (1603-1659) (4,6)

  16  Relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue (7)

  17  Night spent watching over a dead body (4,4)

  21  Agricultural settlements established and manned by young soldiers in Israel, especially in border areas (6)

  22  Muscular and heavily built (5)

  24  Platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it (4)

  25  Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished (4)

Here is last week’s solution. The places were, of course, in Cornwall, at the western end of England.

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