Crossword 505

ACROSS

1. Of crops, succession of cultivation in definite order (8)

5. Sap-sucking insect that targets citrus and vines (8)

9. Snake’s poison (5)

10. Fleece of sheep (4)

11. On (a ship or train) (6)

12. Drought-tolerant plant of the Cistaceae family often used as ground cover (4,4)

14. Tree-dwelling (8)

17. Plant native to tropical and Southern Africa known locally as big num-num (5,4)

19. South African elk-like buck (5)

21. _____ chard is the edible leafstalk of a white beet variety (5)

22. Made of small threads; fibrous (7)

23. Earth (prefix) (5)

25. Subject to the twice-daily rise and fall of sea level (5)

27. Apparatus for heating by transmission through liquids or gases (9)

29. Relating to grazing land (8)

32. The voluntary taking of a child as one’s own (8)

33. Perches for sleeping birds (6)

34. Expanse of wild, uncultivated upland (4)

35. Tropical tree from whose seeds chocolate is made (5)

36. Blocks of rotting vegetation cut from bogs and used for fuel (4,4)

37. Causes to swell with air or a gas (8)

DOWN

1. Dwelling in or near a large inland flow of water (8)

2. Invigorating and strengthening medicines (6)

3. Large tropical tree with yellow flowers and long, brown seed pods (8)

4. Looped rope with a running knot, used for trapping (5)

5. The mallow genus (5)

6. Small, sluggish burrowing creatures found in sandy beaches and used as bait (8)

7. White mark on a horse’s face (5)

8. Bloodsucking insects that attack cattle (8)

13. African buck with the ability to walk on marshy ground due to its elongated hooves (9)

15. Consigned to a lower position (9)

16. Mountain plants (7)

18. The ____ kingfisher has black-andwhite plumage and a crest (4)

20. Field and land use (prefix) (4)

23. Quantity of plants placed to attract destructive insects away from other plants (4,4)

24. Habituate (8)

25. In the zone between 23,5° north and south of the equator (8)

26. Woody (8)

28 Any member of the

Panthera genus (3,3)

30. The Bantu people of Zimbabwe (5)

31. Young sheep (5)

32. Garlic-flavoured mayonnaise (5)