Across
- 1. Shropshire county town
- 4. Blue-green gemstone
- 6. Giant slayer
- 8. First King of England
- 10. An appropriate response to cold-calling
- 14. A person in their nineties
- 15. Jazz musicians
- 16. One's preference, idiomatically
- 17. When you might get the cake and eat it too
- 19. Laughter, proverbially
- 20. Dessert, e.g. blackberry
- 22. What's for pudding
- 23. Grumpy doc
- 24. ____ Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress author
Down
- 2. Idyllic Welsh island
- 3. Open, shrubby wasteland
- 5. Good deal
- 7. April showers bring May ______
- 9. Where commuters line up
- 11. Home of the Bluebirds
- 12. Italian composer without shop
- 13. Lorraine's pie
- 14. N. Yorkshire market town
- 15. What Benny Goodman played
- 18. Jack ______, White Fang author
- 21. Upright and grand