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