COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Strip of coastal land, just a spade’s depth? (4)

4 Glos. home of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (10)

9 Where you might find a budding gardener? (7)

10 Town on W. Yorkshire’s ‘Welcome Way’ LDP (5)

11 Insects – in plant stalks (4)

12 Fertile plains e.g. of Evesham and Glamorgan (5)

13 Colouring of squirrel – or hound? (4)

14 Term applied to fossil-rich area of Dorset / East Devon coasts (8)

16 Soft, wet ground e.g. of low-lying wetland area (6)

18 Slim-bodied dragonfly – in Cheddar terrain (6)

20 An easy way to get up the Heights of Abraham (5,3)

22 Knock out e.g. an animal before slaughter (4) 24 A stretch of time – appropriate for a Pendle Way walk? (5)

25 See 7 down.

26 Sieve soil? That’s a puzzle (6)

28 Britain’s only legless lizard (8)

29 Woolly-leaved plant found on young sheep’s head? (5,4)

30 Potential plant – in hothouse, Eden (4)

DOWN

e.g. the Llyn in Wales (9) 2

3 Long-winged seabirds’ changes of direction, it’s said (5)

4 Bundles of corn (7)

5 Heavenly, pastoral (7)

6 Fruit tree flower ... blooms madly round south (7)

7/25 across. A rocky Scafell peak – call rig out (3,4)

8 River flowing into Blenheim’s lake – partly straggly meander (5)

13 Deep ravine e.g. Ironbridge or Ebbor (5)

15 Hants. market town needs Towers for a Staffs. theme park! (5)

17 Preserved prehistoric settlement in Orkneys excited Sara Baker (5,4)

19 Sows again – and withdraws by the sound of it (7) 20 Site of an annual RHS garden show in May (7)

21 Roars like a bull – of help to a blacksmith? (7) 23 Tremulous call of e.g. a warbler (5)

25 Town on I.O.W. Coastal Path – is intimidating we hear! (5)

27 What a beaver makes – beastly mother! (3)