COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Policeman’s small orangebrown butterfly? (6)

5 Another name for the little grebe (8)

9 Southend has Britain’s longest one (4)

10 Baffles these cunning animals? (5)

11 Drives home sheep? (4) 12 Lakeland village associated with Wordsworth (8)

13/29 across ___ __ Caves Global Geopark, in Northern Ireland – and landmark by Hyde Park (6,4) 14 English archipelago: foolish, though it sounds! (6)

17 Forest at the end of Robin Hood Way (8)

19 Leave quickly, in an angry huff – awful weather, rotten (5,3) 22 Attacked by a bull (5)

24 What map contour lines show is a comfort (6)

26 Town at centre of Bute’s

‘West Island Way’ – awfully short, aye! (8)

29 See 13 across

30 To fish with bait anchored on the bottom (5)

31 E.g. knot, crane or stilt (4) 32 People who like to bivouac in comfort – large MP’s possibly (8) 33 See 25 down

DOWN

2 Any willow whose twigs are used in basketry (5)

3 Type of edible mushroom – also sunshade (7)

4 Freshwater fish also called pope (5)

5 Small, hardy Irish cattle – 10 in desert, possibly (7)

6 Broom made from twigs tied to a handle (5)

7 ___ Force, England’s largest single-drop waterfall – grim and bitingly cold (7)

8 Town on Cornish Way has dromedary by river crossing? (9)

15 Tideswell’s 14thC church is known as ‘___ of the Peak’ (9) 16 River of Dorset and Somerset – in Skye, oddly! (3)

18 Contents of a mermaid’s purse (3)

20 ___ Marshes, a Thames Estuary RSPB reserve (7) 21 Searches for fodder – over a very long time? (7)

23 Wetland area favoured by bitterns (4-3) 25/33 across Globular black spider with fleur-de-lis marking – old wife was upset! (5,5)

27 Launch ... some Falmouth rowboats (5)

28 A blue one indicates a bridleway (5)