Across
- 2. metro station between Ilford Road and Jesmond (4,7)
- 3. musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; about street gangs in New York (4,4,5)
- 4. Robert .......: Tyneside-born children's author: notable for treatment of themes of war (7)
- 5. main road west from Newcastle city centre: follows route of Hadrian's Wall (8,4)
- 7. complete this saying about home (4,4,4,2,4)
- 8. road running east-west through Elswick from south west corner of St John's Cemetery into town (11,4)
- 9. neighbourhood west of Denton Burn: there is an East one too (4,6)
Down
- 1. 1959 movie starring Cary Grant and directed by Hitchcock: west only appears at the end (5,2,5,4)
- 3. metro station between Monkseaton and Shiremoor (4,10)
- 6. neighbourhood in north west of Newcastle: not a time to lose hope? (10)