With Ye Traditional Boxing Day Walk in Wanstead Park being rained off, it’s time for the other tradition – the Wansteadium Christmas puzzle. Send pics of completed grids to info@wansteadium.com for max kudos. Answers later in the week.
(See it here in PDF format for easy printing.)
Across
4) Fringe stalwart and chaser
5) Hardy’s hardly this, except in Wanstead
7) – The Fish
8) Cad
10) Costs a guinea on 17 July
14) AKA Stephen Lewis, late of this parish
16) Park landmark
17) A girl on the High Street
18) Was 50 in 2019
20) Wanstead’s dancer, strictly speaking
24) Doctor of the House
26) Harry –
28) River
29) County
32) AKA Gale
33) Wanstead through the Ages author
Down
1) County
2) High Street stroller
3) Wanstead son who became a state
5) Cad
6) Small fringey instrument
9) Cad
11) County
12) Children of the Fringe
13) The Padre of Bombetta
15) Italian for hops
17) Park landmark
19) French city or weak adjective? No one knew.
20) John –
21) Used to be on Woodbine Place
22) Wanstead’s star-gazer
23) Poet
25) What Winston wears in his old place
27) A field, a lane, there are a lot of them around
30) The fish go in two by two
31) Cad (with 5,8 and 9)