So here it is: Hobbity Hamlets! A modest prize is offered for the first reader to correctly solve the puzzle. Please send your answers by Quickpost to armeria -at- post.com. Please let her and the editors know if you like this. We plan to have more puzzles in the future, if you do.

 

ACROSS

2. The place to keep common supplies (5)
5. Feel free to tease in this burrow (10)
10. Immerse oneself in the novel (7)
11. No bee so bold flew the length of the gaffer's furrow (10)
14. Hide your particulars in the prickly shrubs here (11)
15. A proper place to consider one's course (7)
16. Here we find Hal cooking liver (8)
17. I hurt my neck avoiding crows in this empty place (11)
18. This is a snug community (11)
19. No clue? Turn it around my dear halfling (8)

 

DOWN

1. There are new neighbours in this old valley (9)
3. Beyond Bag End they sing songs of travelling far away (8)
4. Take a stroll to these musical holes (10)
6. Smaller friend of our capital (6,7)
7. Not a place for the anxious (5)
8. He would haul his logs to the lobby, I heard (8)
9. A Great Hole at the end of a Long Road (4,6)
12. The groom in front garbled his words (10)
13. Mount your pony, but not from the right (7)

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