Rachel from Cornwall

Got stuck in the bottom left-hand corner because I put in “chum” for “British buddy”. “Chum” is the British word for a friend. “Chap”, which I eventually got via the down entries, is a British word for a man or a boy, usually affectionate - “He’s a good chap.”

Shout out to the sub-editor who wrote the caption for the picture of the (?) marsupial at the top of the Wordplay column. It’s so clever and witty.