Garden News (UK)

Prize-winning crossword

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USEthe following answers to complete thisthi quotation from 20th-century Mexican architect Luis Barragán: ‘A garden must combine the 20 across and the 10 across with 31 across of 8 across and 26 across.’ ACROSS 8 State of being calm and untroubled (8) 9 Musical piece with a recurring theme (5) 10 Difficult to explain, enigmatic (10) 11 Respirator­y infection (3) 13 Of a bird, tidy and clean the feathers (5) 15 Plants fringing a tropical beach, perhaps? (4,5) 19 Was 30 across at another’s possession­s or achievemen­ts? (6) 20 Expressed in verse (6) 21 Serious weed with jointed creeping stems (9) 23 Tree of the birch family (5) 26 ‘ Ode to ___’, Schiller poem(3) 27 Perennial commonly called lady’s mantle (10) 30 Not harmful to the environmen­t (5) 31 Flashdance … What ___ – 1983 hit for Irene Cara (1,7) DOWN 1 Extremely (4) 2 One-hundredth of a metre (10) 3 Seaside a®raction (4) 4 Northern Ireland county, chief town Omagh (6) 5 Thin slice of potato, fried (5) 6 Cu®ing blade (5) 7 Common spelling of boatswain (5) 12 ___ Hall, Cumbrian house famous for 17th-century topiary (6) 14 Able to be turned the other way round (10) 16 Greek god of music and 20 across inspiratio­n (6) 17 Stack of hay or straw (4) 18 Somewhere to sit (4) 22 Sugary fluid secreted by flowers (6) 23 Bugle genus (5) 24 Flood-prevention embankment­s (5) 25 Of weather, wet (5) 28 Smooth, regular (4) 29 ___ lily, common name of

Narcissus pseudonarc­issus (4)

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