Crossword Competition

Across

7 Benefits from being a friend of 21 & 13 (5) 8 Behind a bogie train wagon, head journalist alighted (7) 10 One of 21 & 13 (7) 11 Devon _ _ _ _ _: luxury post-war passenger train that ran to Plymouth and Ilfracombe (5) 12 Magic clan I somehow end up praising (10) 16 Places it is perhaps advisable to visit with this highly skilled expert (10) 20 You could have done this in style on 11 (5) 21 and 13 Down The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: 1970 family film favourite based on the book by E Nesbit (7, 8) 23 Val _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Railway - narrow gauge railway in the Dolomites that closed in 1960 (7) 24 One of 21 & 13 (5)

Down

1 What you sometimes see when a pantograph and the wires lose contact (5) 2 Seizes BR gas, perhaps (5) 3 Encounter addict during HavenhouseRauceby journey (4) 4 Discover that urban development can ensue when travel warps in a backward direction! (6) 5 See 15 Down 6 One of 21 & 13 9 Excavate material from a water environment to improve drainage (6) 13 See 21 Across 14 Perhaps goads a pooch into being sick… (2, 1, 3) 15 and 5 Down Actor who died in 2022, famous for his role as 7 in 21 & 13 (7, 8) 17 Follows Moira on Northern Ireland Railways (6) 18 Idiots twist twist! (5) 19 Surname of Labour MP who was Transport Secretary from June 2001-May 2002 (5) 22 _ _ _ _ Line - runs from Lincoln to Grimsby (4)