Crossword no 234

Across

6 A game played on a lawn, in which wooden balls are driven through a series of hoops (7)

8 An ancient market town on the River Nene in Northamptonshire (6)

9 River near Snape Maltings in Suffolk (4)

10 A popular seaside holiday resort in Devon (10)

11 Humphry _______, one of the great English landscape gardeners of the 18th century (6)

12 City in central Scotland on the River Forth (8)

14 Pertaining to the period in British history from 1811 to 1820 (7)

16 Arnold _______, novelist who wrote The Old Wives’ Tale (7)

19 Centre of a target (5-3)

21 Formerly, a parish officer with the power of punishing minor offenders (6)

22 A tapering deposit of calcite hanging down like an icicle from the roof of a cave (10)

24 Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France in World War I (4)

25 _______ Abbot, market town in Devon, on the River Teign (6) 26 A pouch worn by a Highlander in front of the kilt (7))

Down

1 Conservative statesman, Prime Minister 1834-35 and 1841-46 (6,4)

2 Decimus _______, 19th-century architect who designed buildings at Kew Gardens and London Zoo (6)

3 Public school near Bath (8)

4 The A in AD (4)

5 Small town in Cumbria on the river South Tyne (6)

6 All Souls in Oxford, for example (7)

7 Yorkshire birthplace of Thomas Lord, creator of Lord’s cricket ground (6)

13 County of which Fylde and Pendle are districts (10)

15 A curved street or terrace (8)

17 Author of The Hobbit (7)

18 Composer of the tone poem On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (6) 20 Alison _______, author of the Little Grey Rabbit series of children’s books (6)

21 Vale of Evesham village with a 14th-century barn preserved by the National Trust (6)

23 Old stringed instrument with a body shaped like a sliced pear (4)