Hampshire Chronicle Gk 1,208 22-10-15

[cruciaddict]

29a City and province of E. Belgium, once a (larger) principality of the Holy Roman Empire and known as Luik in Flemish (5) I?N??

I can only find Liege in Google or my Cambridge encyclopaedia. 25d is Mali (which gives the I) and 17d is intrusion (which gives the N) 18d is either Trasimene/o/a which gives the ending of e o or a.

Thanks in advance to superior brains - or perhaps the HC have got it wrong, again?!!

[Calibax]

Liege looks right. What's the clue for intrusion?

[dannyk13]

Ionia?

[scorpiojo]

Intrusive?

[dannyk13]

Ignore that, I agree with Calibax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-Bishopric_of_Li%C3%A8ge

[retrocop]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge
I think Liege is the answer.

[scorpiojo]

What gives the I?

[scorpiojo]

^ sorry, what's the clue for Mali?

[dannyk13]

Liège - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge Liège (French pronunciation: ​[ljɛʒ]; Dutch: Luik

[cruciaddict]

The clue for 'intrusion' is: geology, of igneous rock that has been formed by magma from within earth's crust moving into overlying strata.

The clue for Mali is: Landlocked republic of W. Africa, first colonised by France in 1898, independent since 1960, capital Bamako.

[scorpiojo]

Intrusive^

[dannyk13]

With all the evidence available above it would seem that the setter has made a boboo.

[aelmpvw]

mali and liege are correct but do not fit the grid?

[cruciaddict]

I know. Even if intrusion is intrusive, then Mali still doesn't fit.

[scorpiojo]

Setter's error and mail fits?

[retrocop]

jo's error and Mali fits. :-)

[scorpiojo]

;o)