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Put the kettle on – it’s time to relax! Solve our puzzle to be in the running to win a worm farm and planter

1. Pungent-tasting leaf (5)

4. Tasting of a bitter citrus fruit (6)

7. The Javanese tree Antiaris toxicaria (4)

10. Any of various trees yielding strong, elastic timber (9)

11. Refereed (7)

13. Terrier or poodle, for example (3) 14. Aromatic plant formerly used for flavouring ale (8)

15. Monkshood, for example (7)

16. Bog plant that captures insects (6) (Picture A)

17. Animal pests (6)

19. Woodwind instrument (4)

21. High-altitude Australasian herb,

… daisy (4)

24. Become extinct, disappear (3,3)

25. Piperaceae, or … family (6)

29. Relating to plants (7)

30. European cyclamen reputedly eaten by pigs (8)

31. Electrically charged particle (3) 33. Legendary bird that rises from its own ashes (7)

34. Bitter bark used as a flavouring (9) 35. Ladder step (4)

36. Frigid, wintry (6)

37. Popular Japanese dish (5)

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1. Structural unit of plant and animal life (4) 2. Early variety of wheat (7)

3. This climbing plant (5,3) (Picture B) 4. Plant-based bath sponge (6)

5. Murky, cloudy (5)

6. Chewy confection (6)

8. Orange fruit resembling a tomato (9) 9. Marsh plant (5)

12. South African flower (6) (Picture C) 16. Canavalia gladiata or … bean (5)

18. Later (5)

20. Covered with uncontrolled vegetation (9) 22. Common fastener (6)

23. The localised death of living cells (8) 26. Cartoon strip that features

Charlie Brown (7)

27. Type of medicinal solution (6)

28. Covered with slender woody shoots (6) 29. Venomous snake (5)

30. Breaks, separates (5)

32. The Japanese persimmon tree (4)