The answers are BOATS in the marina

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Across
  1. 7. The Hobbit, Peregrin Took, is more commonly know as?
  2. 8. an Indian cooking technique
  3. 10. This animal is the UK's most common and smallest
  4. 11. A famous Rod Stewart song
  5. 13. Take this Queen song and remove an "L" to give you this 3 word boat name
  6. 14. The name of the famous 'beetle'
  7. 17. A village 4 miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire on the River Cherwell
  8. 18. Often wrongly credited as a quote by Plato, "____ is in the eye ____ __ ___ _________
  9. 20. Two words that mean a rumour or gossip
  10. 21. To stay as a temporary resident
  11. 22. A village in Surrey, near to the River Wey and very near to Haslemere. It was once famous for it's iron making
  12. 23. "The French use this term for "forward" or sometimes "ahead"
Down
  1. 1. This wildflower is sometimes known as "Oxeye _______"
  2. 2. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, this city also gives it's name to a "British Colony" started by Walter Raleigh
  3. 3. An island in Lee County, Florida and also a model of car that was manufactured by Chevrolet
  4. 4. Having lots of room inside: roomy
  5. 5. A book in the "Adventures of Tintin" series that some may translate as "Destination Moon"
  6. 6. The title track of an album by Neil Young released in 1992
  7. 9. There are 18 types of this bird that have such varied names as "Emperor," "King", "Macaroni", and "Little"
  8. 12. If you spell this word the correct way, not backwards, it is a mild expletive to everybody!
  9. 15. A town on the isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire and the name given to the "Sleepiness Scale" in diagnosis of sleep apnoea
  10. 16. Greek goddess of spring, daughter of Zeus and married to an underworld figure
  11. 19. A George Lucas produced film starring Warwick Davis
  12. 20. This 1989 TV mystery series starred Peter Davison as "Albert _______"