Crossword

ACROSS

1. Short-tailed African eagle (8) 5. Pestered (8)

9. Thicken or coagulate (6)

10. Group of substances that stop

bacterial growth (10)

11. Added a bias to (8)

14. Goading instrument on

a horse rider’s heel (4)

17. Mental picture (5)

18. Pomegranate syrup

used in drinks (9)

19. Bring out from an egg (5)

20. Large bags of coarse fabric (5) 22. Pudding; sweet (7)

23. Stinging insects with black- and

yellow-striped bodies (5)

25. Small group of trees (5)

27. Genus of composite plants that includes wormwood and sagebrush (9)

28. Nearby (5)

30. Woes (4)

32. Sap-sucking plant pests

or jumping plant lice (8)

34. Resourcefulness allowing

unprompted action (10)

35. Seed within a hard shell (6) 36. Groups of organisms that have adapted to a particular environment (8)

37. Absurdity; humbug (8)

down

1. Receding current (8)

2. Brings to an end (10)

3. Throw out (5)

4. Swift (5)

5. Units of four inches, used for

measuring heights of horses (5) 6. Places where bees are kept (8)

7. Genus of labiates that includes sage (6) 8. Unpleasant moistness (8)

12. Elevated (4)

13. Relating to first principles (9)

15. Plants of the Primula genus

producing pale yellow flowers (9) 16. Type of mandarin orange

with loose skin (7)

21. Mushroom or other edible fungus (10) 23. Undomesticated animals

and birds, collectively (8)

24. Saltiness (8)

25. Set out on a voyage (4)

26. Cause to go into solution (8) 29. Plain white cotton cloth,

originating in India (6)

31. _____ chard is the edible leafstalk of the white beet variety Beta vulgaris cicla (5) 32. Of birds, to clean and arrange

their feathers (5)

33. Canadian territory that was the scene of a gold rush from 1896 to 1899 (5)