Spectator 2453

[hankir]

Help with parsing these 3:

25a. Original Dutch language (4)

The answer is a Pakistani language.

18d. So long in Sandhurst without electronic product of 34 (7, two wds)
Answer to 34a is Radon. The answer seems to be 6,1. What is So long in Scotland?

[Buenchico]

'Ur-', as a prefix, means 'primitive, original or earliest' + Du(tch)

[Grandma_Yiddo]

25a Urdu.

[ProfessorMaisie]

ADI(e)U inside RMA

[ProfessorMaisie]

... of course it should be RMAS but the full 'Sandhurst' is given in the clue.

[hankir]

Thanks Buenchico.
Should have looked up Ur.

Thanks Grandma. I had the answer. Needed parsing.

Thanks ProfessorMaisie.
Did not realize Sandhurst required RMA.

In the old days, a number of Pakistiani military leaders were educated at Sandhurst. (So were Indian).

[Farrwest]

Careful hankir.. I was educated at RMAS so let's have no more of 'in the old days'!

[hankir]

Sorry Farrwest.
No offense meant.
I was merely trying to say that both India and Pakistan now have institutions that train for careers in Military.
No longer they send them to Sandhurst to be trained, I believe.