COUNTRYSIDE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Old monarch’s type of English plum (8) 6 Potato etc. disease ... making top of beetroots glow! (6) 9 Mushroom? No, it’s a cabbage relative (6) 10 Hampshire island produces fodder grass and heather (7) 11/20 down UN to cry wolf about ... a vast blanket peat bog in Scotland (4,7) 13 Equestrian’s proviso to a contract (5) 14 See 19 across 15 Severely criticizes roofing material (6) 17 See 19 across 18 Chestnut’s first single fruit produced by fir tree! (4) 19/17/14 Past your prime – having begun descent from summit? (4,3,4) 20 Top of mushroom in brassica patch (3) 21 Southern variety of pears thin on the ground (6) 22 Briefly, habitats designated as needing protection in Hertfordshire’s Ashridge (4) 24 Flat-topped inflorescence of e.g. carrot – turning blue around start of March (5) 26 See 7 down. 28 Woodsman harassed ferret so! (8) 29 Devon town on Tarka Trail – is wont to change! (6) 31 Small rocky island – two rivers in Skye, possibly (6) 32 An irritation to Clydesdale, for instance (8)

DOWN

2 Urge forward – moving mile around top of Pennines (5) 3 A couple in hamlet, Worcestershire (3) 4 Comes back – rest run off! (7) 5 Sap-sucking insect caught in trap, hiding (5) 6 The laurel: bare, yet cultivated (3,4) 7/26 Carrageen seaweed capsized HMS Osiris! (5,4) 8 Drunk comes down to earth here in NW Scotland! (9) 12/21 Rare, native aquatic plant – a marine? (5,7) 16 Farm animals excited, so lick vet! (9) 17 Kill to reach the summit (3) 18 A flock of goldfinches march off (5) 20 See 11 across 21 See 12 down 23 Remove a fleece? (5) 25 Resort on Ceredigion Heritage Coast path – river divides the two (5) 27 Coppiced tree stump makes a simple seat (5) 30 Observe a part of greenhouse effect (3)