Times QC 3227 by Wurm

The settlement was originally named Nieuw Haarlem after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. When the English took over Manhattan we changed the name to its current spelling, “Harlem,” as the AA “looked foreign”

The name FOOLSACP comes from the traditional watermark of a jester’s cap and bells that was used on this paper by European papermakers as early as the 15th century.

It is longer and slightly narrower than the common A4 (8.3 x 11.7 in) or US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) formats.

I think TERMINUS is the more common term for an end of the line station, I know the Americans say Bus TERMINAL, but we brits say Bus Station.

I think the best example of bed=layer is in Geology. “A thin bed/layer of limestone”

A Cigarette Butt is an example of butt=end.

Great anagram, though probably not original. I was thrown by “Asian”, forgetting that the Middle East is of course nearly all in Asia.

The definition of “dish” works in both ways, as a Balti is both a curry and the metal dish it is served in: Urdu for “bucket”.

Like chicken tikka marsala, it is a uniquely British-Indian creation that originated in Birmingham in the late 1970s. In my younger days, we used to drive all the way up to Sparkbrook to get one.

Not a formal pedigree breed but a crossbreed (often a whippet/Greyhound with a terrier/collie) valued for its unique combination of speed and intelligence.

U-Boat is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, which is an abbreviation of Unterseeboot. Literally translated, it means “undersea boat”.

This was tough to parse, but referring to a “gate of 20,000” is how sports reporters would refer to the number of people attending a match. I think its probably quite dated now.

Fitting clue since the Winter Olympics are on. Although pretty rare in the singular, its not clear what one Alp is. We don’t say one Cairngorm or one Himalayum.