COMPACT CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Blue-flowered bristly plant (6) 4 Instrumentality (6) 9 Times (music) (5) 10 Prickly pear (7) 11 Zero (3) 12 Baptismal sponsor (9) 13 Labiate garden plant (7-4) 18 Rock plant (9) 21 Grassy area (3) 22 Hearted (anag) (7) 23 Salad plant (5) 24 Oil seed (6) 25 Latin name for England (6)

DOWN 1 Common labiate plant (6) 2 Trailing rose (7 ) 3 Leaving (5) 5 Hungarian stew (7) 6 Saltpetre (5) 7 Foamy (6) 8 Saxifrage (6,5) 14 Sir Thomas _, financier (7) 15 Medicinal plant (7) 16 Estimate (6) 17 Coarser kind of cinnamon (6) 19 Florentine iris (5) 20 Hickory nut (5)