Country Walking Magazine (UK)

Crossword & wordsearch

- By Will Adams

Exercise that brain of yours.

ACROSS

1 Think deeply about arranging teatime, including last of bread (8) 5 Part of ‘Sunrise’, a song about winter, perhaps (6) 9 Poor Catriona, lacking this waterproof? (8) 10 Very best sort of fitness, but lacking stamina initially (6) 12 Take small drink containing last of alcohol and lose one’s footing? (4) 13 Breaking a log with bum leads to back pain! (7) 17 Horse-rider might be quite near summit of Snowdon (10) 19 Farm animal opens can of worms! (3) 21 Encountere­d back in September (3) 22 Hey – path end divided, then joined by a short line! (10) 24 Roman water god put awkwardly in English river (7) 25 Herb makes daughter unwell (4) 28 Lags behind on long-distance footpaths? (6) 30 Great place in Norfolk to redirect Mary – not in hotel (8) 31 Astute small mammal on top of Dartmoor (6) 32 Warm woollen garment for trembling Daniel Craig – no lie! (8)

DOWN

1 Lake in Lyme Regis (4) 2 Form tiny waterfall’? (4) 3 Showing lack of sensitivit­y, Head of Tourism has castles demolished (8) 4 Walk heavily with Mike, caught in snare (5) 6 Magazine revamped without centre section – mysterious thing (6) 7 Catch sight of the briny, we hear (3) 8 Sadly die in a town, anywhere in the country (10) 11 Whiten when left in sand? (6) 14 Buckingham­shire National Trust property with a Sir Walter? (6) 15 Ends in main street, unusually (10) 16 Passenger vehicle put up with serious quarrel (4-2) 18 Short poems? I’m abandoning shimmery compositio­n! (6) 20 Unfortunat­ely man lied about top of foot, red and swollen (8) 23 Shropshire town with strangely dull town centre? No! (6) 25 Small drink and a play (5) 26 Organ found in all ungulates (4) 27 and 29 Rarefied atmosphere into which things vanish? (4,3)

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