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Across
  1. 2. company that took over Northern Rock in 2011 (6)
  2. 3. fictional Northumberland detective created by Ann Cleeves (4)
  3. 4. Roman fort west of Chollerford in Northumberland (10)
  4. 6. hilton......... - original guitarist for The Animals; born in North Shields (9)
  5. 8. armaments and engineering company which had three factories on Scotswood Road (7)
  6. 9. the traditional sausage roll is Gregg's best-selling product; this newcomer has proved popular also (5)
Down
  1. 1. title usually given to Bede, the monk based in Jarrow thought by many to be England's first historian (9)
  2. 2. brewery in Sunderland (4)
  3. 5. middle name of one of Newcastle's large hospitals (8)
  4. 6. destroyer made by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn; its loss in 1901 together with HMS Cobra made by Armstrongs led to the Navy ending the use of snake names (5)
  5. 7. adult comic created by two brothers from Newcastle (3)