WEST CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 I saw a run-over fox in the road at the edge of this village near Withypool (6)

4 I heard Effie was running along beside the Dart, being silly, when she fell in -- she looked even more silly then! (6)

9 I crashed my car into the front of a shop in Portishead -- now all it’s fit for is the reclamation yard (5)

10 Some fishermen accidentally caught a seal near Gurnards Head (7)

11 I wrote this poem while living in St Enoder (3)

12 I live in this large hamlet, in a backstreet, about two miles from Bideford (9)

13 You can always find my son, Ed, in the Lion’s Head in Leigh, getting drunk on cider (4,7)

18 My nan got ill so she moved into our place near Chippenham (9)

21 I met this boy from Bovey who is training to compete (3)

22 We had a large leak in the loft in our place on the outskirts of Westward Ho -- we’ve had three plumbers come to try to fix it (7)

23 Kelvin, who lives in Arne, is otherwise known as The Singing Carpenter! (5)

24 I’m a top salesman who lives near Sidmouth, and I need a rest -- I need to unwind after all the pressure I’m under (6)

25 When we drove around this bay in East Cornwall, we broke a local authority regulation (6)

DOWN

1 This area on the Isle of Portland is so neat and well-ordered (6)

2 After my fall last June, the doctor fixed me up and now I am able to go on walks around my village near Ivybridge (7)

3 Dan and Charlie, two businessmen from Purse Caundle, are so horrible they disgust me (7)

5 Our vet is leaving Trevalga and relocating to a village near Lamanva (5)

6 My pearly whites were fixed by the dentist right in the middle of Wareham (5)

7 This graduate from Amesbury took a year off at the end of June, which looks bad on his CV (6) 8 I hear Artie and Sam, who live in Winton, are going to move to a place near Dorchester (11)

14 Ken has moved in with a lady who lives about three miles from Barnstaple (7)

15 There are five earls in East Wiltshire -- it’s surprising there are that many! (7)

16 In the countryside, on the outskirts of Probus, there is a place which breeds chickens (6) 17 My two brothers, who live near East Looe, know their way around Cornwall (6)

19 Don is leaving Alderton -- he’s moving in the very near future (5)

20 In the middle of May, two of my pals left Nailsea and moved to a city between Pittsburgh and Cleveland in Ohio (5)