
Published: 16-12-2009

SINDEN: The guest speaker at our 80th birthday event. (6)
GREENBELT: We campaign to protect this. (5,4)
JAVELIN: Now hurls passengers at 140mph! (7)
SSMONTGOMERY: This WWII wreck could blast a hole in Boris Johnson's plans for an estuary airport. (1,1,10)
HOO: Who? (3)
APPLE: A fruit is in tap, please. (5)
LOWERGREENSAND: Rock type that forms a high ridge across Kent (5,9)
BIG: If built it will ruin Wrotham, Platt and Borough Green (3)
HADLOW: Growing college in Chad lowlands (6)
OXNEY: Kent Isle: Where you might keep cattle when the Rother floods? (5)
RAMSGATE: This town is a sheep stopper! (8)
PLUTO: No longer a planet, this dog of a project helped fuel the D-day landings from Kent. (5)
MAIDSTONE: Is this town a rock chick? (9)
SHEPPEY: Kent Isle: The only settled Kent isle that is an island. (6)
GOLDINGS: This precious element of beer will having you hopping mad. (8)
KIG: If built it will ruin Maidstone and its surroundings. (3)
HARTY: Kent Isle: Part of a larger island, it used to have a ferry to the mainland. A destination for stag nights? (5)
ELMLEY: Kent Isle: Part of a larger island, perhaps it succumbed to Dutch disease? (6)
CHARING: Village shares name with an angry London station. (7)
CRANBROOK: The smallest town in Kent is a rock on bar, mixed up. (9)
GRAIN: Kent Isle: Named after crops but now more refined. (5)
GREATSTOUR: Trust a ogre rearranged; East Kent River. (5,5)
DICKENS: Which great author came to a confused sick end? (7)
THANET: Kent Isle: Was a true island in Roman times, when it's name meant the 'Bright' or 'Fire' Isle, probably after its lighthouse. (6)
PERRY: A cider that has gone pear-shaped. (5)
SHOREHAM: Is this west Kent village on the coast? No. (8)
TONBRIDGE: heavyweight river crossing (10)
CINQUEPORTS: Five French Docks? (6,5)
CONRAD: Comes first as disgraced newspaper baron, comes last in the heart of darkness, buried in Canterbury. (6)
OAST: Building for drying oats? Confused. (4)
Look out for another crossword in the next issue of Kent Voice, out in the spring