COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Mourn spoilt Scottish mountain of a certain height (5) 9 Breed of fowl ... in Vyrnwy and Otterburn (9) 10 Equipment for a fox cub? (3) 11 Midlands river linked to the Mersey by a canal (5) 12 Amphibians – palmate, smooth and great-crested (5) 13 Lakeland fell – named after ‘Lofty’, secret agent? (4,3) 15 Possibly eats rue – that’s harsh (7) 17 Organisation offering cheap accommodation (3) 18 A major Peak District moor – hatchet’s sharp side (3,4) 21 Lout (3) 23 Evergreen conifer possibly unripe after start of June (7) 25 Marine relative of crayfish (7) 26 Evergreen tree in coppiced arboretum (5) 28 Small gnat-like fly (5) 29 See 16 down 30 Traditional country musical get-together (4,5) 31 Cooks failing to start hop kilns (5)

DOWN

1 Nuts about Shetland Isle with Britain’s most northerly path (4) 2 The only resort on the Solent Way – turns at houses (8) 3 Like country gentry and their clothing? (6) 4 ___ Point: North Devon peninsula and AONB (8) 5 In Bleadon I saw ... a rare blue butterfly (6) 6 Pack neatly – for a market town on the wold (4) 7 He has less movement to arrive at this town at start of Yorkshire Wolds Way (6) 8 Cut grass for fodder (4,3) 14 Barley, corn etc. (5) 16/29ac. Mid-Wales LDP amid creepy NT waymarkers! (5,3) 19 Cumbrian town hosting World Gurning Champs – Tom Green organised (8) 20 ___ Bay, voted ‘Best Beach of 2017’ partly assemble to north (8) 22 Powys mountain range – destroyed by wrens! (7) 23/25 Flight of steps at Cheddar Gorge and a Sidmouth beach (6,6) 24 The ___ at Leamington or the Royal __ at Cheltenham (6) 25 See 23 down 27 Challenge someone to prove courage – in Rhondda reservoir (4) 29 Go this direction and be ruined! (4)