WEST CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Me and my two sons have opened a comedy club about three miles outside of Minehead (8)

5 My brother, a leading historian from Harcombe, has achieved the highest level of achievement he can (4)

9 Ben, a company head who lives in Barncoose, is organising a trip to a popular tourist destination in South Wales (6,7)

10 So, the outskirts of Penarth and places like that are where plants used in brewing are grown? (4) 11 This village near Sparkford is certainly not prim -- it’s wild and rambling! (7)

13 At the end of April last year, two of my friends left Restormel and moved to a place just south of Glastonbury (6)

15 The last time Henry from Tehidy got dressed up, it was in a style that was popular with hippies in the 1960s! (3-3)

18 When I stayed at this hotel in the middle of Kilgetty last August, stupidly, I left an item of lingerie (7)

20 While I was walking along The Grand Pier in Weston-super- Mare, I bumped into one of my relatives (4)

23 Born in a small road in Weston, my father later moved to a place near Totnes (13)

24 They discovered an explosive that had been planted in a museum in Exeter (4)

25 There have been two enormous fires in the centre of Cheriton Bishop -- terrible, out-of-control blazes (8)

DOWN

1 A top school on the outskirts of Bristol is to get new rooms equipped for teaching science (4)

2 This statement of beliefs was compiled by a youth leader from Croyde (5)

3 Rob from Probus took his four kids to the zoo at the beginning of May -- unfortunately they had no zebras left, but they did see a marsupial with a prehensile tail (7)

4 Ruby and I got drunk in the Boar’s Head -- it’s a small place not far from Cirencester (6)

6 From the centre of Exeter, this small limited company distributes a specialist West Country cream (7)

7 In this film’s last scene, which is set in East Looe, the characters finally reveal their intrinsic natures

(8)

8 It was a pleasant temperature when we left West Ashton, but it had started raining on our arrival at Monmouth (4)

12 I was badly shaken after my accident near Longwell Green (8)

14 This strong, top athlete can be spotted running around our village in Cornwall (2,5)

16 In Exmouth, two men with a gun attacked an innocent young woman (7)

17 After my old nan left Kent, she moved to a village near Starcross (6)

19 Previously, I was living in Bothenhampton (4) 21 My first wife was from Crowan -- she turned out to be a complete nut! (5)

22 These poems were composed by Don, a leading writer from Woodsend (4)