The 2004 Trail organised by Ormskirk and Aughton NWR
Note: A word had to be added to the answer to make a food. Suggestions are in italics, although any answers that were a food were accepted.
- Parents straddling a river REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Parma ham
Pa and Ma around R
- Hat or bra would be out of place in this fishing port REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Arbroath smokies
Anagram
- Subject of a Hundred Views by Katsushika Hokusai REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Fuji apples
Japanese artist painted many views of Mount Fuji
- Town planning experiment in the West Midlands REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Bournville biscuits/chocolate
'Model' village near Birmingham
- A moated castle? Sounds like it should be approached with caution REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Caerphilly cheese
Sounds like 'carefully'
- Nuclear weapon gets the OK in India REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Bombay duck/potatoes/mix
Bomb + Ay
- It's cold here and unfortunately more than half the canoe has fallen off REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: baked Alaska
Alas + ka(yak)
- Ecological Duke on the Common REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Beef Wellington
One of the Wombles who recycled rubbish on Wimbledon Common
- Bird on river or cliffs REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Dover Sole
Dove + R (famous cliffs)
- Where Charlie's uncle stayed at home to wait for his wife REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Brazil nuts
'Charlie's Aunt' in the play came from Brazil, where the nuts come from
- Cornish Buccaneers' favourite theatre REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Savoy cabbage
'Pirates of Penzance' - Savoy Operas
- Horst Jankowski perambulated here in the 60s REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Black Forest gateau
1960s record - 'A Walk in the Black Forest'
- Where you'd find a man between Java and Neanderthal REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Peking duck
Peking Man comes between Java Man and Neanderthal Man
- Sounds like Bertie's fine china REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Worcester permains/apples or sauce
Sounds like B Wooster
- Bonny brown river in Scotland REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Dundee cake
A reference to 'Bonny Dundee' and also Dun (brown) + Dee (river)
- Lodge's work in France? REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Nice biscuits
David Lodge novel 'Nice Work'
- Welsh-born philosopher and mathematician loses a pound and finds a shilling in the city REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Brussels sprouts
B(ertrand) Russell - minus L plus S
- Crazy prince of India REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Madras curry
Mad + Ras
- Launching a European space programme? That's capital REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Cayenne pepper
Capital of French Guiana where they launch European spaceships
- A Mancunian Goon REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Eccles cake
Eccles is a character in radio's 'The Goons' and also a town in Greater Manchester
- Elton's Freedom or Katherine's Story REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Philadelphia cheese
Elton John's song 'Philadelphia Freedom' and Katherine Hepburn starred in the film 'Philadelphia Story'
- Old county copper abandons vegetable and goes to ground REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Cumberland sausage/sauce
Cucumber - Cu = Cumber + Land (old county of Cumberland)
- Should they grow larch or leylandii around this Northern town? REVEAL ANSWER
Answer: Chorley cake
Hidden word