COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Large draught horses for counties? (6) 5 Pig clean – poppycock! (7) 9/13 Revolutionary method of growing different vegetables! (4,8) 10 Another name for the mountain ash (5) 11 Small stream (sounds like a Welsh resort) (4) 12 Back on land, a horse moved (6) 13 See 9ac. 15 Fenland market town ... in Lewis (be chary) (7) 17 Grass-like wetland plants (6) 18 Country houses Romans ruined (6) 20 Common moorland fern (7) 22 Horticultural dealer, Sam, needs to change (8) 23 Walkers of these don’t barge along them! (6) 25 Irish county’s type of salad dressing, in short (4) 26 By which a walker might enter a field – could be a squeeze (5) 27 If outgoing, then a walk to Devon’s Burgh Island possible? (4) 28 Cork coastal resort’s unusual sea link (7) 29 Boatman on River Cam, for example (one who takes a gamble?) (6)

DOWN

2 In short, county location of Verulamium (5) 3 Birds of prey disturbing parrots? (7) 4 Sloping mass of loose rocks ... in Thames creek (5) 5 Village with parsonage on the Bronte Way (7) 6 Liquor from juniper berries, or an animal trap (3) 7 Exposes to the action of air – as a tree, perhaps (7) 8 Festival when monstrous pumpkins are carved! (9) 14 Devon Trail named after an otter (5) 15 The shape of Pen-y-Ghent – tortuous beach walk (9) 16 Surrey market town with a racy common! (5) 19 The location of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile (not wold, anyhow) (3,4) 20 Beacon ... comes before a certain November night (7) 21 Partly trekking to Newport – for town on Offa’s Dyke (7) 23 Fledgling’s cry sounds economical (5) 24 Gatekeeper’s cottage and beavers’ home (5) 26 It ends a coast to coast walk, wherever you start from (3