COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 In Castleton, ice is a refresher (5) 4 Flog a hardwood tree (5) 8 Soft pine wood and Kent resort (4) 9 Fossil resin in stream, Berkshire (5) 10/31 Ancient clapper bridge in Exmoor (4,5) 11 Fork in the road – for second class US cattle farm? (6) 12 Perching (8) 14 South Devon resort – so be calm, perhaps (8) 16 Go stealthily after prey (5) 18 Attacked by a wasp and ripped off? (5) 20 Cuddling up to ... young bird (8) 22 e.g. a Munro or Nuttall (8) 24 Swift-flowing river section like The Strid (6) 26 Starts to enter beach, Bedruthan Steps, as tide goes out (4) 28 Thick woody stem – box? (5) 29 Hesitate, it’s said, as a bull scrapes the ground! (4) 30 e.g. forded a stream (5) 31 See 10

DOWN

1 The Angles Way passes through these wetlands (3,6) 2 Wind-resistant fabric – partly shiny, long-lasting (5) 3 Kent town with an Historic Dockyard (7) 4 Warrens (7) 5 Make a deep track, as deer do in autumn! (3) 6 e.g. egret – and Pike on Helvellyn ridge (5) 7 Famous beef breed of black cattle (8,5) 13 Lag behind hiking route? (5) 15 Vessel for turning cream to butter (5) 17 AONB from White Cliffs to Surrey border (4,5) 19 Worked hard and propagated a plant (7) 21 Winter-visiting birds – shriek horribly at start of Spring! (7) 23 Horseshoe-shaped bend in a river (5) 25 Insects between larvae and adult stage (5) 27 Piece of turf – initially seen on Dartmoor (3)