PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Angry, took a tumble on the Pennines’ highest peak (5,4) 8 Top of boot has association with painful toe swelling (6) 9 Turning into a picnic, it surely has something to do with the countryside (6) 12 Engrave into sweet chestnut (4) 13 Wading bird, courageous type on top of nest (5) 14 Suitable footwear for South Plymouth landmark? (4) 17 One follows name change for flower of the buttercup family (7) 18 Walks with difficulty into edges of gorse to get a quick look (7) 19 Very sharp bend for four walkers below Airedale, perhaps? (3-4) 22 Laces he breaks in West London (7) 24 Nothing includes a protection for the toe? (4) 25 Beginning of trail laid out according to the movement of the sea (5) 26 Initially detects every ley line in small wooded valley (4) 29 I break poor Gwen’s embroidery (6) 30 Long-distance paths – revised list contains road, oddly (6) 31 Not physically fit? Uh, then lay around! (9) DOWN 2 Wet weather – I hurried outside (4) 3 River scene I change – honest! (7) 4 Arrange round of golf with no food – lasts 220 yards! (7) 5 He leaves strange hostel, not knowing where he is? (4) 6 Clues altered after Mike has ‘bundle of fibrous tissue’ (6) 7 I’m up on Cumbrian Fells by unlucky accident (6) 10 Flower of the buttercup family, and a sort of line dance (9) 11 Leg nearly fractured in most cases (9)

15 and 16 They’re carried on poles across the fields, but I sleep, worn out! (5,5) 20 Protection for the lower leg against heartless rough granite… (6) 21 …and front of lower leg, broken leg, on pebbly beach (7)

22 and 28 Maybe lost a chap at longdistance trail beside the sea (7,4) 23 Explosive projectiles found on beach? (6) 27 Notice some walkers ignore (4) 28 See 22 down