WEST CROSSWORD

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1 To begin with, our son leaving Branksome was upsetting (6)

5 I was hit by a bus in Plymouth -- it shattered a bone in my pelvis (5)

9 Juliet and I have been to three seances in this old, haunted place in the centre of Truro, where they use a board with letters to contact the dead (5)

10 I hear Little Beatrice from Benton had to go to A&E following an accident -- she’s a very young child (7)

11 I’m an old age pensioner from Portishead who gets muddled up and behaves indecisively (7)

12 Glen and Sue are both leaving Gunnislake at the end of June, and going off travelling -- they are of a similar character (4)

14 Last year, my aunty was involved in a severe accident on the seafront -- by the water at Portishead (6,7)

17 Les, a head chef from Launcells, was involved in a crash which left him an invalid (4)

18 My first property was in Alston, and then I moved to a place near Dartmouth (7)

21 A hollow in the road surface caused damage to the back of our coach in a backstreet in Poole (7)

22 This professional novelist, initially from Potterne, went to a top university and made an exemplary student (5)

23 They’re building a health centre, right on the outskirts of Germoe -- it’s going to be relatively big (5) 24 I spotted a number of large sea vessels sailing around when I was on the seafront near Exmouth at first light (6)

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2 I was in the centre of West Moors when the storm first hit, but surprisingly I only got a bit wet (5)

3 I took my two parents on a ramble around my place near Nancledra (8)

4 Kirk and Glen live with their son, Les, in a place on the waterfront about two miles from Dainton (13)

5 This small lake is halfway between Camborne and Redruth (4)

6 Last week, a black car was hit by the front of a lorry in an accident on our housing estate in Bridgend (7)

7 I saw a flock of geese flying around in the middle of Malmesbury at the weekend (5)

8 My son and daughter both live on the outskirts of Carno, in newly-built American-style properties (6)

13 At the beginning of November, a leading modern artist moved into our village near Mawgan (2,6)

15 This village near Braunton was the scene of a violent revolt by leading abolitionists (7)

16 I have a second home in Nye which is on a small road which winds off into the distance (6)

17 My pal, who lives on the outskirts of Eastington, is travelling to a place in the Himalayas (5)

19 My daughter is going out with a headmaster from Dartmouth -- she’s training to be a teacher herself (5)

20 The river at Taunton flows to the northeast (4)