Usual "atlas"-type knowledge of our land.
Still, it must be nice to sit in the frozen Home Counties and dream of Pigeon Hole Station, Gippsland and Lake Neale.
And, if you think this is bad, pity the Irish at Christmas.
Across
1. PECK. Double def.
"A measure of capacity for dry goods, equal to a quarter of a bushel (8 U.S. quarts = 8.81 litres, or 2 imperial gallons = 9.092 litres)" -- OED.
The "seed" bit is par exemple and unnecessary. And ... how long would it take to pick 9 litres of pickled pepper?
3. FLAMBOYANT. Anag (fly boatman).
10. GIPPSLAND. Anag (P + Spalding).
11. GIANT. ANT (insect) after GI (soldier).
12. OMEGA. Inclusive. "Of" is the weak inclusion indicator.
13. BULLS-EYE. Double def.
15. HOBBLED. "Hob" is an archaic word for "ferret". Not a lot of those around here.
17. PROWLER. "First light" = L. So we can only assume that "with" = RE.
19. LURIDLY. L + UR + IDLY. Wrong part of speech for either "a sensation" or "causing a sensation" as the def.
21. SOURSOP. Anag (Puss roo).
22. DRIVEWAY. Anag (view) inside DRAY.
24. ENNUI. A dubious double def for Sartreans.
27. OWNER. Anag (new) inside OR.
28. RELUCTANT. Anag (cattle run).
29. DISCOVERER. ER (hesitation) after DISC + OVER. Apparently a flying saucer is a "disc over[head]"?
30. TEAR. Double def.
Down
1. PIGEONHOLE. Double def. Except that the place in the NT is two words and it's a station.
2. COPSE. Homophone. "Brake" is archaic for a "thicket", "small group of tress". Very European. Perhaps you could find a hob in there?
4. LEAF-BUD. Anag (fuel bad).
5. MUDFLAP. Rev. of ALF in anag of DUMP.
6. OLGAS. Obvious.
7. AMARYLLIS. Rev of SILLY+RAM+A.
8. TITI. Obscure South American monkey.
9. ASSAILED. "When" = AS + SAILED. Another wrong part of speech.
14. PROPRIETOR. Dubious cryptic def.
16. BORA RINGS. Anag (B + roar sing).
18. OPULENCE. Anag (Noel puce). Another wrong part of speech. This is getting tedious.
20. YEW TREE. Anag (we try + E).
21. SKY BLUE. Anag (be sulky). "No longer" as anagind? Bollocks!
23. VIRGO. Obvious.
25. NEALE. Homophone. Not much water in it at the best of times, I'm told.
26. FOLD. F (strong) + OLD.
