Crossword ...just for fun!

ACROSS

2 Lucky Scottish moorland plant (7)

6 Ivy with a royal connection make this the site of a battle

(1590) in which the Huguenots defeated the Catholics in the French War of Religion (4)

7 The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (1,1,1,1)

8 Taxus baccata! (3)

9 A knotty, stringy word to follow tree, plant, neck, bow and silk! (3)

10 Conjunction used in negative phrases to introduce the second member in a series, as in Clematis ‘Ai-___’ and

Hosta ‘___’easter’ (3) 11 Genus of flowering perennials, with common names including wandflower and angel’s fishing rod (7)

12 To pinch out, or to do it in the bud! (3)

13 Greek lettuce, it could be said! (3)

14 Asplenium bulbiferum is also known as the ___ and chickens fern (3)

15 Plants of the Asian tropical palm genus daemonorops are known as ____ palms (4)

16 The seed-bearing structure of conifers, composed of hard bracts (4)

17 Common name for several achilleas! (7)

DOWN

1 This Friday (30 November) is his feast day! (5,6)

2 The short-lived perennial

Glaucium flavum is also known as this! (6,5)

3 Any of various small passerine birds of the family Certhidae, which live in woodlands throughout the Northern Hemisphere (11)

4 Plants that produce resin are said to be this (11)

5 Like a tree in structure, growth or appearance (11)