CROSSWORD 266 by Axe
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Oriental king’s entertaining American foreign aid for Basque Country (7)
5 Giant iguanas found in part of the Caribbean (7)
9 Service hiding one in an Urals city (5)
10 Had a Derby flutter and made a princely pile in India? (9)
11 Hermes stopped him shouting, being a loud speaker himself (7)
12 Edam market (translated from ‘maarkt’) square disappeared after the Spanish retreated (7)
13 Icicle Dan shaped in the Nordic character (9)
16 Back before the zenith of European vulcanology? (4)
18 Australian’s straight – sound – and… (4)