WEST CROSSWORD

ACROSS

5 There’s a railway track at the bottom of the hill in the middle of Templecombe (4)

7 So after four years living in Othery, we left and moved to a place near Treswithian (10)

8 As arranged, me and Pip went to the youth centre in Culmhead at the weekend -- it’s something that always cheers us up (4-2-2)

10 It takes three hours to get to West Ashton, travelling by car (4)

11 Mysterious objects in the sky were reported by three youngsters at the beginning of February, just outside of Oak Cross (4)

13 When my cousin worked in the supermarket right in the centre of Cardiff, he treated me to money off my shopping (8)

15 Dotted around my backyard in Arne, I have four hedges and a shrub with fragrant white flowers (8)

16 Charlie and Mel from Elmscott must be run ragged having so many small children! (4)

17 We are going to leave Knowle and relocate to Germany’s fourth-largest city (4)

18 The crematorium at Truro was designed by men who lived in Upton (8)

21 The orchestra leader from Enmore was in a terrible tizz -- at the start of the opera he had messed up his short solo (10)

22 Looking at Topsham, essentially everything is in an untidy state (4)

DOWN

1 The road in the middle of Berry Pomeroy has collapsed -- there is an abrupt downwards slope in it (4)

2 I’m a leading wordsmith from Gweek -- I’m almost obsessively knowledgeable (4)

3 Old men go walking around this area near Porton (8)

4 There is only one place to catch a bus in the whole of this Topsham estate (4)

5 My lover left on the first day in October, and moved to a place near Highampton (8)

6 I had my first tipple, a gin and tonic, around noon in the Turks Head about two miles from the centre of Weymouth (10) 9 My mobile and four cufflinks were in my car when it got broken into while I was visiting this resort on the North Devon coast (10)

12 I read this top surfer intends to relocate to a village near Indian Queens (2,6)

14 Near Ansty, there’s a place that recreates one of the old tin- mining districts in the South West (8) 18 The first time I visited Plymouth, I broke down on the way back -- which was an unfortunate turn of events (4) 19 Do as you’re told by youth leader Ron from Oborne, otherwise you’ll get into trouble (4)

20 On the outskirts of Tresmeer, I saw two horses starting to run at a slow pace (4)