Crossword ...just for fun!

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In botany, the typically green 1 and leaf-like parts of the calyx of a flower, enclosing the petals (5) The salad rocket genus (5) 3 What a caterpillar, slug, snail 7 or another garden pest will do to parts of our plants! (4)

One takes hold of something 8 – such as the rubber ‘sleeve’ on the handle of some tools (4)

Pull along, as with the lupin 9 cultivar ‘___ering Inferno’! (3)

The subject of this week’s 11

Miscellany! (9)

14 Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is a fungus that causes ___ dieback disease (3)

The subject of this week’s 16

Miscellany, if left to mature, grows into a ___! (4)

This old measure of fresh 17 herrings (equivalent to 37½ gallons), with a berry, is a sauce ingredient (4)

Spread mites – as in a 18 confession! (5)

Body of honeybees that 19 emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony (5)

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The subject of this week’s 1 Miscellany, when sprouting through the soil, is called this! (5)

Genus of evergreen shrubs 2 or small trees, chiefly native to Australasia, with typically small fragrant flowers (11)

The bladderwort genus 4 of aquatic and moist-soil plants (11)

5 Mentha suaveolens is the _____ mint (5)

Weather 6 and 15 down phenomena that need to be over, before tender bedding plants should go out! (3+3, making 6)

Genus of the water 9 chestnut (5)

What were the grapes of, in 10 the 1939 John Steinbeck film (and as in a cultivar of hemerocallis)? (5)

Tropical climbing plant of 12 the cucumber family, including the vegetable sponge, used at bath-time (5)

The flax genus (5) 13

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