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CLUES ACROSS

1 Gold-edged red-flowered tulip cultivar, ‘Queen of - - - - -’, biblical ruler (5) 3 Deciduous, grey-barked tree of the genus Platanus (5) 6 Mostly blue-flowering alpine of which acaulis, sino-ornata and verna are species (7) 7 Gorse-like heathland shrub, Cytisus scoparius being the common species (5) 9 “I think that I shall never see. A poem lovely as a - - - -”, Joyce Kilmer (4) 12 Alternative name for the linden of the genus Tilia (4) 13 Irish triple Gold Cup-winning horse celebrated in a named narcissus (5) 16 - - - - - - - cardinalis, striking, erect perennial with scarlet blooms (7) 17 Black-eyed - - - - -, the bristly stemmed biennial, Rudbeckia hirta (5) 18 - - - - - bush, name given to Cotinus coggygria with its haze of flowers (5)

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1 Salvia officinalis, herb often used with onion to make stuffing (4) 2 Girl’s name sometimes seen as an alternative for sweet alyssum (6) 3 Cheddar - - - -, scented dianthus long associated with Somerset (4) 4 Red - - - - - - -, butterfly and name for a phlox or geranium cultivar (7) 5 Vigorous pond oxygenator, - - - - - - canadensis or Canadian pondweed (6) 8 Colloquial British name for wild garlic, Allium ursinum (7) 10 Gardeners’ scourge, - - - - - - repens commonly known as twitch or couch grass (6) 11 White-flowered rockcress genus belonging to the mustard family (6) 14 - - - - Ayckbourn, English dramatist lending his name to a pink/white fuchsia (4) 15 Fruit-bearing Physalis peruviana or the - - - - gooseberry (4)