Really good old-fashioned grid.

Very nice! I'm more of a "bap" guy but I'll take anything really. Except barm. Never barm.

Excellent. Loved the capital cities one. Good stuff.

Absolutely loved this, missed the fruit and capital cities connection. Really wish I'd managed to spot Plague as I think that's the best one to get into it

The bun/barm/cob explanation doesn’t make sense. It says “used to describe a bun/barm/cob”. Used to describe what? I’m American so we def don’t have this but the explanation didn’t make sense

As an American, we most certainly use "bun" and "roll". You know... bread. I think "bap" might've made it slightly easier for an international audience in place of one of the others, since it's thrown around a fair bit on Great British Bake-Off. Or maybe not.

Anyway, fantastic job with this grid! The capital cities in particular were satisfying to figure out.

Great puzz! Wish it accepted "cities" as the connection.

Good fun grid. Thanks
Capital cities group was v clever. Spotted Pristina and Rome but not the other two. Luckily that was my last group so I had the 4 anyway
I'm a bread roll person