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Across
  1. 1. leader of Newcastle City Council from 1960-65: reputation permanently damaged by later corrupt activities (5)
  2. 4. one of towers on Newcastle's town walls: now Grade 1 listed (9)
  3. 6. Roman fort at Wallsend (9)
  4. 9. family that owned the manor of Benwell long ago: will Bonny Bobby come back and marry me? (6)
  5. 10. Newcastle-born footballer regarded as one of the greatest strikers of his generation; joined Newcastle United in 1996 (7)
  6. 11. road in Fenham linking West Road to central motorway east: used to be the access road to Silver Hill Farm (6,6)
  7. 12. lead singer of the band The Police; born in Wallsend (5)
  8. 13. neighbourhood just to the east of Newcastle city centre: name probably means field with a shelter (11)
Down
  1. 1. home of Sunderland football club (8,2,5)
  2. 2. bridge across Tyne, opened in 1879: built by WG Armstrong & Co to to enable larger ships to sail downriver from the company's shipyard at Elswick (5)
  3. 3. Where I heard a lassie sing: street near Newcastle quayside, takes its name from one of the gates on the medieval town wall (8)
  4. 5. town at mouth of Tyne on south bank (5,6)
  5. 6. last shipyard to close on the Tyne (4,7)
  6. 7. cinema on Westgate Road in building now called New Tyne Theatre (5)
  7. 8. music venue on riverside at Gateshead (4)