WEST CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 This place near St Merryn is a town in need of redevelopment (5)

4 This extraordinarily large hotel opened on 6th August -- it’s near Ferndown (4)

8 The surfing beach near Newquay is flat at the far right -- it’s been shaped that way (7)

9 I had just set off from Laneast and, at the bottom of the valley, an odd-looking, deer-like animal jumped out in front of me (5)

10 This leading emporium just outside of St Austell has had a refurb -- it’s somewhere you can pick up some real bargains (4)

11 My cousin left Clifton after we had an argument -- it was a really serious disagreement (8)

13 If Ron and Mike leave Milford Haven my getting drunk will be drastically reduced (6)

14 Roger in Charmouth is an overworked local shopkeeper (6)

16 I saw an old owl flying around my village in the Blackmore Vale (8)

17 Ron, a leading novelist from Braunton, also plays a brass instrument (4)

20 John, a famous singer and pianist, comes from a place near Westbury-on-Severn (5)

21 There’s a rumour going round about this celebrity initially from Caerhays (7)

22 I saw my three sisters last month -- having left Okehampton, we’d gone to the West End to see a musical (4)

23 I saw a ram on the outskirts of Holcombe, chasing around after a group of breeding females (5)

DOWN

1 So, these four gentlemen, initially from Falmouth, are all terribly rich and stuck-up people? (5)

2 We initially lived in Southwell, then Teignmouth, and then, at the end of the summer, we moved again to a village near Winfrith Newburgh (4,8)

3 This lad from Redland is a terrible swot (4)

4 There’s a very posh hotel in this place near Blandford Forum (6)

5 They had a terrible flood last spring near our village just outside of Twigworth (8)

6 There was a terrible accident in East Stour -- a bus skidded on ice and crashed into a car towing a large motorboat (5,7)

7 This star lives on the outskirts of Edmondsham -- he’s an extraordinary artist of consummate skill

(6)

12 Nerdy Henry said Elsie confused this village near Woodfalls with a village near Bruton which both have the same name (8)

13 Last April, three of my pals from Holywell travelled to visit my place near Chard (6)

15 A learner driver from Holway drove into the back of my van -- they were driving around in a careless way (6)

18 I read that a very deep chasm has appeared by the primary school in the middle of Okehampton (5)

19 I threw a party last month, at a nightclub right in the centre of Bristol -- it was wild! (4)