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ClueS ACroSS

1 Double-flowered form of Ranunculus aconitifolius or - - - - maids of France (4) 4 ‘Yankee - - - - - - Dandy’, dahlia cultivar with colourful blooms (6) 7 - - - - - - wreath, hardy spiraea with arching sprays of white flowers (6) 8 Euphorbia martini ‘- - - - Tim’, named after one of Dickens’ Cratchits (4) 9 Spiny-leaved perennial Echinops bannaticus or blue - - - - - thistle (5) 11 South Florida city famed for its beachside palm trees (5) 12 Wrinkly-leaved cabbage and an ancient region of France (5) 14 Culinary herb that follows parsley, sage and rosemary in song (5) 17 Butterfly - - - - or fast-growing Buddleia davidii (4) 18 Common uK name for spring-flying cockchafer beetle (3,3) 20 root vegetable with popular cultivars ‘Nantes’ and ‘Chantenay’ (6) 21 unwanted, or misplaced plant – a tare in the Bible (4)

ClueS DoWN

2 Showery month for gardeners (5) 3 Colour of runner bean flowers such as ‘Polestar’ and ‘Achievement’ (3) 4 Anethum graveolens, annual herb of celery and parsley family (4) 5 Big bird whose plumes evoke name of - - - - - - - feather fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris (7) 6 Botanical genus containing flax (5) 10 ‘Caesar’s - - - - - - -’, Siberian iris cultivar with intense violet flowers (7) 13 Genus of spreading rhizomatous perennials commonly called bugle (5) 15 Shade of pinkish blue as in erysimum ‘Bowles’s - - - - -’ (5) 16 Fungal disease mainly of grasses identifiable by soot-like spores (4) 19 long-lived conifer in the taxus genus, toxic in all parts (3)