294 Crossword

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1. Sent round to many places (8) 5. Relating to land or its management, uses or distribution (8) 11. Kidney bean or French bean ( 7) 12. Genus ( Ceanothus) of the buckthorn family, New Jersey tea ( 7) 13. Full-bodied tea from north-east India (5) 14. Any plant of the genus Malva (6) 15. Highly seasoned Italian sausage (6) 16. Plants of a group that includes mushrooms, toadstools, mould and yeast (5) 19. Bay or dark (animal) with spots of grey and white (4) 23. Name of several kinds of leguminous plants and their seeds (4) 24. Large, brown kelp with ribbon-like frond strips ( 7) 25. Plant providing seeds from which chocolate is made (5) 26. Wild chrysanthemum (2-3) 28. Animal yet to be weaned ( 7) 30. Female horse (4) 32. Palm or its fruit (4) 35. Grass edging to a road (5) 38. Country, capital Lusaka (6) 39. Joined in couples (6) 40. Soil (5) 42. Uttered the cry of a horse ( 7) 43. Small invertebrates with sectional bodies ( 7) 44. Protein found in some seeds (8) 45. Related to meaning, especially of words (8)

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1. The mayfly genus (8) 2. Inner circle or whorl of petals in a flower ( 7) 3. Bird noted for laying eggs in other birds’ nests (6) 4. Greek letter I; a very small amount (4) 6. Rudimentary shoot of a plant (4) 7. Of the major South American mountain range (6) 8. Place in a detached situation ( 7) 9. Any nourishing substance (8) 10. Large, wild ox with shaggy hair and a fatty hump (5) 17. Bladder-like envelope of some fruits ( 7) 18. Large European goose ( Anseranser) ( 7) 20. Mother-of-pearl or a shellfish yielding it (5) 21. American elk (5) 22. Embellish (5) 23. Food made of a baked dough of flour or meal, usually with a raising agent (5) 27. Brazilian rainforest (8) 29. Relating to large-scale measurement of the Earth (8) 31. North American name for cos lettuce ( 7) 33. Orange-coloured Asian fruit with downy skin and rich, aromatic flavour ( 7) 34. Fade or become dry; lose freshness (6) 36. Of the countryside (5) 37. Tropical Asian tree and the coarse kind of cinnamon that it yields (6) 40. Biblical garden of paradise (4) 41. Skin of an animal (4)