Geography No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Geography) cryptic puzzle: 37 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Examine, we're told, a wrecked pub relic in this Bohemian state (5,8)
8. A raga in a new arrangement — celebrated falls (7)
10. Note northern girl to follow (5)
11. Improvises with five amplifiers (5)
12. Not at home, ready from the start (6)
15. Behold a fine appearance (4)
17. Harmony, less an unknown quantity, is a single item (4)
18. King has diamonds, a staple in the East (4)
19. A moment held in these cabins (3)
21. With a chop, what a relief! (4)
24. Money from a dissolute roue (4)
25. Cad about to list (4)
27. Manor rebuilt for a learner is nothing special (6)
29. Croat performing as a player (5)
31. One icon damaged in a Greek order (5)
32. Posh accommodated in a larger development? Standard (7)
33. Britain and Ulster joined in one realm (6,7)

Down

1. Study trip in outline (7)
2. Clearance raised, with a spasm — the stretchy stuff (7)
3. Hoist by a chap's greeting in Rome (5)
4. Old flame's morning paper (4)
5. Broods over dropping a thousand, and employs (4)
6. Girl's love of rope (5)
7. Nerve in the side of the face (5)
9. Assesses a stare wrongly (5)
13. Untie clumsily and join up (5)
14. Tesla, converted, is a bargain (5)
15. Scowl and bring down (5)
16. A rope in a tangle? Carmen, say (5)
20. You might paddle your own in this (5)
22. Drone, having lost blood, was brought low (7)
23. With formal treatment, it becomes tungsten (7)
25. Lofty cooing, we're told, makes Japanese verse (5)
26. Broken nine taking in university produces tedium (5)
28. Groan, upset by the party paper (5)
29. Mace ground to the highest point (4)
30. Trudging round endless kilometres, primarily! (4)

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