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Across
  1. 4. small town south of Darlington (13)
  2. 6. Great ..... Museum, formerly known as the Hancock (5)
  3. 7. place by the sea in Northumberland: famous for its statues of a couple in the bay (9)
  4. 10. green space and park next to Town Moor (4,4)
  5. 11. stinging plant that is growing freely in our graveyard while we are unable to work there (6)
  6. 12. surname of Geordie actor who played Oz in Auf Wiedersehen Pet (4)
Down
  1. 1. title currently held by Ralph Percy, 12th Duke: major landowner and owner of Alnwick Castle and Syon House on the Thames in London (14)
  2. 2. street behind Eldon Square shopping centre; site of iconic Grade 2 listed building that formerly housed a Co-op department store built in the 1930s (6)
  3. 3. initials of much loved British institution which has just celebrated its 72nd birthday (3)
  4. 4. pit where north east's worst mining disaster took place in 1862 killing 204 miners (3,7)
  5. 5. ...... Cornish - coal miner, born in Spennymoor, who became a celebrated artist (6)
  6. 7. Newcastle's other university: used to be a polytechnic (11)
  7. 8. village on the Tyne just west of Lemington (7)
  8. 9. what did I break on my way to Blaydon in 1862? (4)
  9. 10. original name of Tyneside Cinema (4,6)
  10. 11. name of 14th century church in Newcastle: now the cathedral(8)