COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ricks of hay – lots? (6)

4 Wading bird turning at cove (6)

8 Spa city on Cotswold Way (4)

9 Potato swelling or dahlia root (5)

11 Scatters seeds and female badgers? (4)

12 This ruminant is Britain’s largest land mammal (3,4)

13 Lincolnshire town with a five-sailed windmill – partly central for Doddington (6)

15 White water may be found in such river stretches (6)

17 Lines of cut hay – right inside skylights? (8)

19 Robin-sized summer visitor ... upset rest – drat! (8)

21 A fast horse pace – in Donegal, loping (6)

22 To separate grain from husks (6)

24 Term meaning ‘relating to ivy’ – or alder he transformed (7)

26 Killer whale in Bognor catch! (4)

28 Term applied to ‘new’ potatoes, seasonally (5)

29 A windmill’s blade, sounds pretentious! (4)

30/1 down Vertiginous path on West Highland Way – Old Nick’s steps to bed? (6,9)

31 Tools that turn over spits of soil (6)

DOWN

1 See 30 across

2 Greenfly, say, in trap, hideous! (5)

3 Young squirrels (7)

5 Herb, genus Verbena, with medicinal uses – five in rocky ravine (7)

6 Because, in short, it’s a type of lettuce (3)

7 Wrote about the folly at Broadway, maybe (5)

10 One on the lookout for a hobby or a kite etc? (11)

14 Wild, untamed (5)

16 E.g. an edition of BBC Countryfile Magazine (5)

18 Areas of trees and shrubs, smaller than forests (9)

20 Hertfordshire village – has moved by spring (7)

21 It’s said to get horses moving (5-2)

23 Ran like a jack rabbit? (5)

25 Roamed ... Dover’s moved! (5)

27 In short, an off-road vehicle ... initially approaches Tamar Valley (3)