COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Exchange a tapering riding ACROSS1 5 whip (6) Canal features ... two odd tracks (8) 9 Berkshire town on Thames Path in Datchet, once (4) 10 Scottish resort to prohibit fish farm, initially (5) 11 Some corn or maize is the average standard (4) 12 Sullen – but keen to incubate eggs! (6) 13 Use horn wildly to throw an equestrian (7) 15 Clumps of grass knelt on in church? (8) 17 A Lakeland fell in Carmarthen? Absurd! (3,3) 19 Falkirk’s first low-weight series of canal locks (6) 21 Horse possibly hunts, etc. (8) 23 Village on Thames Path Trail produces roast, say, pork joint (7) 24 Disease affecting sheep – farmer finally involved in study (6) 25 Underground part of plant that burns brightly? (4) 26 Willow twig I put in rose arrangement (5) 27 Select ground-breaking tool (4) 28 After end of week, nothing changes for Powys market town (8) 29 Fertilizer ingredient’s plant container has moved (6)
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2 Cautley Spout, say – after wall collapsed (9) 3 Annual April endurance hike on Dartmoor – or in tents (3,4) 4/8 Beastly thing associated with May Day – a favourite topic of conversation (5,5) 5 Protective parts of footwear stuck out impertinently? (7) 6 Environmental organisation – starts to work with farmers (3) 7 I enter a different equine racing venue (7) 14 Town on Solent Way is somewhat marshy, then (5) 16 Grasp it’s a sort of crop grown between two main crops (5) 18 Canal walkers might get high on these! (9) 20 Compost-filled container for e.g. greenhouse tomatoes (7) 21 Pink-red meadow flower – main cop out (7) 22 Shape of a daffodil flower – and maybe bugle? (7) 23/26 Milk container not allowed? Rapidly produce large quantities! (5,3) 24 A surcingle? Parts reversed (5)