Across
- 2. Graceful waterbird with ornate head plumage (2)
- 3. A dutiful desert companion
- 6. Clothing item that you can be 'forever in'
- 10. Small comapanion in battle, best pal (2)
- 12. Alison's roost (3)
- 15. Badminton equipment, prone to disaster
- 16. John's feet faux pas (2)
- 17. A close friend and welsh flame
- 19. Your final swansong on horseback (2)
- 20. Arch Toon rivals, a fixture of school days
- 22. Name of a benevolent squire in third Rome (3)
- 23. Polish sustenance of the dumpling variety
- 25. Resident artist at Les Essarts and great friend of Phillip Kerr
Down
- 1. Your weekend coffee stop's namesake
- 4. Likely to be spotted on safari and in a south west london borough
- 5. Starting place for novice riders
- 7. Sparkling seafood (2)
- 8. Essential ingredient for bathing
- 9. Master of equine enigma's (2)
- 11. Round-the-clock anthophile, he who shall not be named (2)
- 13. Home for birds known for murmurings (3)
- 14. Garnish best fashioned by a riverside gaucho
- 18. River rascals (2)
- 21. 'How do you solve a problem like ______'
- 24. He's making things up again...