UK Places

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Across
  1. 3. This Welsh seaside town has a flag with a bearer on. (9)
  2. 4. This small village 8 miles outside Cambridge sounds as though it has just entered into the world. (5)
  3. 7. Aled, lead the way to the Kent coast, please. (4)
  4. 8. Sounds like a very small brook or rivulet in Wales. (4)
  5. 10. This large, ancient village in Dorset is where Tess of the D'Urbervilles spent her honeymoon, wrapped up in lanolin. (4)
  6. 14. Within 4 weeks of taking office in July 2024, Labour stupidly tried to conceal the true nature of a murderous, terrorist attack here. (9)
  7. 15. This entrance is for male sheep only. (8)
  8. 16. Popular on the Devon coast - the more one has, the more one wants. (4)
  9. 17. How old is your bird with the long neck? (7)
  10. 19. Victorian seaside resort on the Isle of Wight implying that air doesn't flow here. (7)
  11. 20. There's no north in the u-bend. (4)
  12. 21. Sounds like an ironic, sarcastic smile. (3)
  13. 22. Rhymes with boy, coy, joy, koi, soy and toy. (5)
  14. 27. On the West Sussex coast, Kier Starmer is famous for having one of these. (13)
  15. 28. And the animals went in ten by ten. (5)
  16. 30. Famous for a devastating flood disaster in Devon, 1952. (8)
Down
  1. 1. Ideal for jumping in when the sun's out. (5)
  2. 2. In Northumberland, a castle town not too far from Mr Gascoigne of University Challenge fame. (8)
  3. 5. Who is located on the Isle of Grain? (3)
  4. 6. Rick Stein set up his flagship restaurant in Cornwall here, 50 years ago. (7)
  5. 9. An ideal place to go for renal care in Northern Ireland. (5)
  6. 11. Scotland wants to ban everything - from free speech to common sense to women-only spaces. (4)
  7. 12. Come here for sun, sea and crabs. (6)
  8. 13. I came here to see houses, you idiot. What did you come here for? (9)
  9. 17. He played for Millwall, Notts Forest, Tottenham, Manchester United, Portsmouth, West Ham and Stevenage on the Norfolk coast. (10)
  10. 18. Located at the delta of the river Exe. (7)
  11. 23. Can be preceded by Hackney, War and Pick. (4)
  12. 24. The parliamentary constituency of the true leader of the opposition. (7)
  13. 25. A village located between Guildford and Dorking that sounds like it has had a completely thin, fine haircut (5).
  14. 26. A coastal outlet for raw sewage. (4)
  15. 29. I met a man with seven wives on my way here. (2,4)