| DUTCHELMDISEASE | From Holland to the Spanish mainland, foremost detectives with no difficulty produced a threat to those in 24 across (5,3,7) |
| FERMOR | Last name of the travel writer who recounted his journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul aged 18 in the books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (6) |
| STRESS | Difficulty produced by accent (6) |
| NAKEDEYE | Unaided vision of a private detective with no clothes on? (5,3) |
| PINON | Assign blame to detective with no name (3,2) |
| BANJO | African in origin, this instrument was popularized in the United States by enslaved people in the 19th century. It has a tambourine-like body with a hoop and a screw that secure the vellum belly to th |
| ISTHMUS | A narrow sandy one connects the Rock of Gibraltar with the Spanish mainland |
| ATLAS | Series of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, running generally southwest to northeast more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) through the Maghreb, from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the southwest to th |
| ELBURZ | Major mountain range in northern Iran that is 560 miles (900 km) long. This range, most broadly defined, extends in an arc eastward from the frontier with Azerbaijan southwest of the Caspian Sea to th |
| HEERLEN | Industrial city in Limburg, Netherlands; a major coal-mining centre from the late 19th century to th |
| FINISTERRE | Cape that is the westernmost point on the Spanish mainland (10) |
| IBIZA | Which island lies between Majorca and the Spanish mainland? (5) |
| ELM | Tree in the Spanish mainland principally (3) |
| ACCRA | In the first minutes of 6th March, 1957, Prime Minister Nkrumah declared Ghana's independence to th |
| OCEAN | Amount of calamine lotion you'll need 'when poison ivy comes a-creeping all around' (according to th |
| SAPIR | Edward, linguist and anthropologist born in 1884 whose works include Language: An Introduction to th |
| CIDER | Detectives with the former queen for a drink (5) |
| THETA | Greek letter equivalent to th |
| DISAGREEMENT | Row of detectives with squad in a salute (12) |
| COINCIDE | Agree to strike detectives with energy (8) |
