MAY ANSWERS

Yorkshire

ACROSS: 1 hippopotamus, 10 elegant, 11 meat bee, 12 ifrit, 13 gene pool, 15 English elm, 16 slow, 18 rush, 20 brent goose, 22 Nordmann, 24 ratel, 26 Acacias, 27 migrate, 28 slender brake.

DOWN: 2 ice frog, 3 plantain, 4 pits, 5 timberline, 6 Mease, 7 subsoil, 8 Mediterranean, 9 yellow-bellied, 14 sharpnosed, 17 agar-agar, 19 servals, 21 outback, 23 maize, 25 Amur MAY WINNER C Kirk,