### Clue: Kid told off outside The Crown in Lowestoft (5)
### Answer: CHILD 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Kid
 CHID(past tense of "chide";to rebuke;to tell off) **containing**(outside) **1st letter of**(The Crown in;the top of, in a down clue) "Lowestoft".
And Hoskins is not imagining things: there is a pub called The Crown in Lowestoft.