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ACROSS
1 Common plant with yellow flowers (9) Male cat (3) Retailed (4) Religious woman (3) Flourish (7)
Went around a star (7) Labyrinth (4)
Ciao tours (anag.) (9) Move around at a party (6)
Term of endearment (7) Close by (2,4)
Down
1 Dance similar to the samba (5,4) Place for drinking (3) Association (5) Baby’s bed (3) Middle Easterner (6) Debuts (9) Rupture (5) Showy but of poor quality (6)
Untie (4) Vigorous (9) Code word for the letter Z (4)
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ACROSS
1 Light now ordered for person who stays up late (5,3) 5 Volunteers in bar with male domestic fowl (6)
10 Environmentalist’s novel – ant is on its cover (15)
11 Warned aboutreal man (7) 12 Doctor at home with king and queen – he likes a tipple (7) 13 Dance found in the Gulf and Angola (8)
15 Hot womanreturning hair dye (5)
18 Some dinerterribly sluggish (5)
20 Its cub is breaking cookies (8)
23 Royal in untrue broadcast
involving nourishment (7)
25 Appropriate behaviour for last
month – nothing odd (7)
26 Formerly well-liked, a depressed maiden with ring on rarely (4,2,1,4,4)
27 Dine in attempt to form
agreement (6)
28 His pony’s unusual sleeplike
state (8)
DOWN
1 Sugary substance from Connecticut found in close (6) 2 Popular German in strong wind needing drink (6,3) 3 Journalist afterpleasant occasion being dealt with ( 7 ) 4 We’d collected a verse and gestured (5)
6 Get rid of oxygen found in his lab, possibly (7) 7 Deception taken at bridge (5) 8 Road making male too wary, surprisingly (8) 9 Scholarly artist’s room is given to us (8)
14 Cooked lamb – none for aristocrat (8)
16 Number getting to ringleader with debts, infamous (9) 17 Autograph given to Pole needing means of gu id a n ce (8) 19 Taking time,our first sightseer (7)
21 Relative with article that’s dirty (7)
22 Corrects guys in
commercials (6)
24 Dog turning up with
ambassador and frill (5)
25 Hold-up, 24 hours, involving the
Spanish (5)
Your weekly gardening to-do list
■■Set up a new compost bin for green waste generated by your garden spring-clean.
■■Sow seeds of chillies, sweet peppers and aubergines in a heated propagator or on a windowsill over a radiator. ■■Prune clematis as necessary – but make sure you consult pruning instructions because individual varieties vary. ■■Check on pot-grown alpines and dwarf spring bulbs growing in a cold frame or greenhouse, and move them to the porch or conservatory to admire as they come into flower.