CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

9 Scarce resident songbird of lowland heaths with a long tail (8, 7) 10 Bellflower that belongs to the family Campanulaceae (7) 12 Part of a plant where sugary fluid is produced (7) 13 Carnivorous marsupial, extinct since the 1930s (9) 14 A South American prairie or savanna, home to anteater and capybara (5) 15 Fair ___ is home to a notable UK bird observatory (4) 17 A ___ swallow might be red-throated, South African or Red Sea (5) 19 First growth of a seed or spore (4) 23 The small, white ___ gull is found in the high Arctic (5) 24 Composite of algae and fungus belonging to theBaeomyces genus (3, 6) 26 Large, long-legged grassland bird – houbara, for example (7) 27 Common name for flowering waterplants of the genus Nelumbo (7) 30 Small 3 Down songbird noted for its relationships with bee colonies (5, 10)

DOWN

1 River whose delta on the Baltic is home to wolf, beaver and white-tailed eagle (4) 2 Genus of poisonous flowering plants, often (inaccurately) known as lilies (4) 3 The ___ wild dog is endangered across much of its range (7) 4 State of South-East Asia whose native species include the proboscis monkey and otter civet (6) 5 North American wildflower also known as Jeffffffersonia or rheumatism root (8) 6 The ___ pear is a spiky cactus species of the genus Opuntia (7) 7 Plant of the daisy family once thought to kill or repel parasites (8) 8 The 3 Down ___ is a moth whose caterpillars exhibit distinctive ‘marching’ behaviour (8) 11 Genus of small insects that includes the greenfly (5) 15 Wader-like Asian bird with a long, curved beak (8) 16 South African shrub, Leonotis leonurus, also known as wild dagga (5, 3) 18Ayrshire lake noted for its nesting osprey (4, 4) 20 A female ruffff (5) 21 Flycatchers of the Americas, which might be chocolate-vented or black-chested (7) 22 Genus of vines and woody shrubs native to South-East Asia (7) 25 Dust-like mass of plant microspores (6) 28 Partly organic substance that makes up the Earth’s pedosphere (4) 29Diving duck that visits the UK in winter (4)