WEST CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 At a pub right in the centre of Honiton, I fell over and broke a bone in my leg (5)

7 There was a fire, and two houses in the middle of Maiden Newton were ruined -- it was a dangerously out-of-control blaze (7)

9 My mum left Neath last May and moved to a place near East Lulworth (7)

10 Mark and Henry got their first place together at the beginning of April -- it’s a place about seven miles from Great Torrington (7)

11 This leading entertainer is from Bissoe -- he’s terribly overweight (5)

12 Elizabeth briefly lived in Surrey before she moved to this tiny place near Launceston (9)

14 At the weekend, my parents visited their second home -- a newly-renovated place in Poole (9)

17 When we take our two kids to the large playground right in the centre of Countess Wear, they get excited about one of the pieces of playground apparatus in particular (2,3)

18 My two mates left Okehampton to go on a trip last summer, and they had an accident on the way to where they were flying from (7)

20 This hamlet near Padstow has a tavern where you can get drunk after last orders (2,5)

21 Fred wants his son to leave Seaton and become a conscript (7)

22 When this lead guitarist, who has a second home in Lynmouth, was on Radio 1, he surprisingly performed a slow and dignified piece of music (5)

DOWN

1 Ben, a rear admiral from Battleton, is working with two of his colleagues to organise a military event with music (6)

2 My grannie lives by the beachfront about 1.5 miles from Wareham (8)

3 Three infants living in East Looe were taken to hospital last night, after they started looking very ill -- it was a ringworm infection (8,4)

4 Living in Devizes, I’m pleased to say, is generally unproblematic (6)

5 This little church on the outskirts of Axminster has a curved roof support (4)

6 At the end of April, my son left Loscombe and moved to a place near Liskeard (6)

8 At three o’clock, the 14 backpackers started walking around the bottom of the hill on the Isle of Portland (12) 13 This was the very first minster to be constructed in the Bodmin Registration District -- it’s near Polzeath (2,6)

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14 I met this lady, a leading performer, while walking around in Looe (6)

15 At the beginning of August, my sister left East Stour -- she wanted to make a new start (6)

16 I gave these backpackers from Alstone a place to stay -- just a rough shelter in my back garden (4-2)

19 Whilst driving through Appledore, a really big truck stopped suddenly and I ran into the back of it (4)