Crossword Centre Prize Puzzle July 2021

 Map by Urchin

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The grid represents a map which solvers must identify. Some answers clash. In 11 clues redundant words must be removed before solving. Their initial letters indicate which letter replaces the clashes, usually leaving non-words. Solvers should colour the clashing cells appropriately and draw 2 lines through them, each touching the perimeter at both ends. Finally, solvers should write, below the grid, the next destination south. Numbers in brackets indicate grid lengths.

Across

2 Ate sandwiches diet - the bard's erased (6)

7 Little dog entertaining one with games, say? (6, 2 words)

11 Survey ends of cul-de-sac in Ruairidh's yard (5)

13 Mum's piece of skirt (4)

16 Pussy is cruel playing with mouse endlessly (8)

17 Roofing cover settled back in a length of wall (7)

18 Jock's aim - necking spirit with no money (5)

19 After starter in albergo? (5)

21 Your local is possessed by god of the deep seas (4)

23 Moldovan ready with reading lesson in Glasgow (4)

24 Fashionable card game in exciting spot (6)

26 Priestess regularly displays crowning qualities (3)

27 Receding trade plans reformed and spruced up (13)

31 Officer's lass hiding blemish? Just the opposite! (3)

32 Nothing less than crazy to man consumed by dig (6)

34 Rock song with a special composition (4)

37 Big wooden box captures African tribe (4)

39 Elements of Chromosomes - a book steeped in sex (5)

41 Ed's bounded over one track (5)

42 Ingenuity about opening for Californian flier (7, 2 words)

45 Following ridge in the country, fix something that's essential (8)

46 I can't understand a French negative (4)

47 Rust found in section of structure oxidising downwards (5)

48 Reversing rank between Sweden and Germany is settled (6)

49 Officers repaired flag with rigid fastener (6)

Down

1 Clumsily slurped little bits of fruit (7)

3 Symbol in dictionary that's lost key law (4)

4 Spies hiding over tails (5)

5 Man in the bible who made trousers (4)

6 Elbow Mourinho out of top of the league (4)

7 One making bundles must take measure with advanced electronic device (5)

8 Time to enter odd reply with impudence (6)

9 Londoner's boat races picked up islands (5)

10 Scottish singer coming up with worried scream (7)

12 With most of festive season an oriental bloomer (5)

14 Junkies taking heroin from court officials (5)

15 Before a meal in Pierre's I play a trick (4)

20 Dictator's successor could be broadcast (3)

22 Primates getting setter in a Jamaican farm (4)

24 Jag worries cycling official (4)

25 Perform part of play (3)

28 Sportsman shot pistol over nothing (7)

29 Play before midday? Not for a Sicilian. (3)

30 Passing bedroom I crashed into garderobe (7)

31 Little piece of mosaic, smaller retreating in network (5)

32 Game I must get computer in to flog (6)

33 An affectation of superiority's new in Leith's clubs (5)

35 Prison officers move around (4)

36 Sort of family with father in the sticks (5)

38 Jerry in offer for stand (5)

40 Amphibians manage to rise in extremes of aquaria (5)

42 Old penny for a sail (4)

43 Routine act elaborated for emission (4)

44 Cross judge could be banned (4)

To enter this competition, send your entry as an image or in list format describing the completed grid and the word under the grid to ccpuzzles@talktalk.net before 8th August 2021. The first correct entry drawn from the hat will receive a book from the Chambers range, which has been donated by Chambers.