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Prize-winning crossword

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Use the following answers to complete a quotation from Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie: ‘12 across 26 down us 8 across that we 9 across 20 across 2 down in 31 across’.

ACROSS

5 Organic component of soil (5) 8 Recollecti­ons (8) 9 Great power, strength (5) 10 Square number (4) 11 Heather genus (5) 12 Supreme being (3) 15 Clergyman’s home (8) 18 Baking chamber (4) 20 Possess (4) 21 Culinary herb of the daisy family (8) 22 Spirit distilled from sugar cane (3) 27 Male duck (5) 28 Raised area of land (4) 30 Florida resort (5) 31 Winter month (8) 32 In that place (5)

DOWN

1 Prefix meaning ‘half’ (4) 2 Wars of the ___, 15th-century civil conflict (5) 3 Spruce genus (5) 4 Pain-relief tablet (7) 5 Meconopsis betonicifo­lia, the ___ blue poppy (9) 6 Wise men (4) 7 Place where something occurred (4) 10 ‘Golden ___’, variety of winter squash (6) 13 Hinged opening (4) 14 Wild flower with greater and lesser varieties (9) 16 Maple genus (4) 17 Tooth covering (6) 19 ___ didyma, plant also known as bergamot (7) 23 Wild plant of the vicia genus (5) 24 Culinary herb of the mint family (5) 25 Leave out (4) 26 Presented, donated (4) 29 Common name of Allium

porrum (4)

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