PRIZE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rural community with Roman house by empty garage (7) 5 Port was destroyed after 1945 (4-3) 9 A regret might be considerably bigger (7) 10 What a golfer hopes to better in Cornish port? (3) 11 River blockage in morning after first of downpours (3) 12 Perhaps left the road south at Hampshire army town (9) 14 Heather plant I care about (5) 15 Romantic meeting in country station (5) 17 The roving differs during the hours of darkness (9) 19 Almost half of Kremlin Putin’s rebuilt as toll roads (9) 21 Sudden muscular contraction in Bath and Leamington, and Maidenhead (5) 24 Official from the past involved in a future event (5) 25 Possibly lot west of this town in the extreme east! (9) 27 Alternately, there’s some poetry in 20 down (3) 28 Yankee in the middle of a right Scottish town (3) 29 I arrive mistakenly in coastal region (7) 31 New Forest surrounds last of Galsworthy and his fictional family (7) 32 I appear in screen adaptation, honest! (7)

DOWN

1 Homeless walker gets V&A subsidy (7) 2 Fib about lane in Eskdale, initially (3) 3 Maybe stare at flower (5) 4 Maybe trek with Howard endlessly on Offa’s Dyke, for example? (9) 5 Songbird has fruit seed with it (5) 6 Greens sat awkwardly with police officers (9) 7 & 13 Could be dead windy round top of Grampians when a couple gets married! (7,3) 8 Run headlong into section of defensive 4 down? (7) 13 See 7 down 16 Party ripe for development in Irish county (9) 18 A rest was arranged going round delta, heading towards 25 across? (9) 19 Leave the main road and stop the flow? (4,3) 20 Came ’ere by ’orse, we hear – or this animal? (3,4) 22 Bit of a fuss in the meadow (3) 23 The name translates as ‘marsh gas’ (7) 25 Sizeable Elgar composition (5) 26 Number observed going round middle of Devon (5) 30 River preceding Wye, it’s said (3)