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1. Delicately patterned insect (4,3)

5. Seeds of an umbellifer­ous plant, used for flavouring (7)

10. Cashew or pecan, for example (3) 11. Flower cluster where stalks spring from a common centre (5)

12. Sour kind of dark cherry (7)

13. Saunter, stroll (5)

14. Kind of American whiskey (3)

15. Free, unconfined (5)

17. Clippers (6)

18. Fly larva (6)

20. Germ, seed (6)

22. Fish used to make lox (6)

24. Clasping leaf base, or similar protective structure (6)

26. The New Zealand tree Vitex lucens (6) 29. Mushroom and yeast, for example (5) 30. Molecule carrying genetic informatio­n (3)

31. Animated 32-down (5) 33. Chase, pursue (2,5) 34. … or betel palm (5) 35. Ovum (3)

36. Dammed, blocked (7) 37. Remainder (7)

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1. Heather (4) (Picture A)

2. Kind of soft white cheese (7) 3. Elaeocarpu­s reticulatu­s or … ash (9) 4. Triangular upper part of a wall at the end of a ridged roof (5)

5. Plant whose leaf stalks are eaten raw or cooked (6) (Picture B)

6. Nettle that yields fibre used in weaving (5)

7. South-eastern Australian wattle with edible seeds (7)

8. The tree Eucalyptus leucoxylon (6,3)

9. Dry fruit of a conifer (4)

16. Flexible twigs used for wickerwork (6) 19. Substance that gives red wine its astringenc­y (6)

21. Plants that take two years to grow and die (9)

23. People born between January 20 and February 18 (9)

25. National emblem of Scotland (7) (Picture C)

27. The introduced plant Phytolacca octandra, now a pest (7)

28. Wild sweet cherry (6)

29. Pear-shaped fruits packed with seeds (4)

30. Variety of wheat (5)

31. Stem of asparagus (5)

32. Fairytale monster or giant (4)

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B 5 down
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C 25 down
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A 1 down

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