Crossword-Solution: BANDER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Bander emerged from her den on the fourth floor, like a portly good-natured spider, and with a broom proceeded to attack the dust shaken from the boots of the journalistic fraternity, with noisy energy.

Then my clerk, whom I sent in the boat, went for the shore, as I had directed him, to see if the government would answer my salute: but it was now near night, and he had only time to speak with the ship-bander, who told him that the government would have answered my salute with the same number of guns if I had fired as soon as I anchored; but that now it was too late.

Thence they went on _via_ Bushire, Bander Abbas, Tcharbar, and Karachi to Delhi, where they received a tremendous ovation as the first fliers to arrive from the home country.

Almost immediately preparations for the route were worked out, twenty-five airdromes and landing-fields were designated, of which the main ones would be at Cairo and Basra on the Tigris, with subsidiary fields at Marseilles, Pisa, or Rome, Taranto, Sollum, Bushire, Damascus, Bagdad, Bander Abbas, Karachi, Hyderabad, and Jodhpur.

BANDER ABB[=A]SI (also BENDER ABBAS, and other forms), a town of Persia, on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf in 27° 11' N., and 56° 17' E., forming part of the administrative division of the "Persian Gulf ports," whose governor resides at Bushire.