Prize-winning crossword

Use the following answers to complete this quotation from poet John Clare: ‘The haughty ___ o’er all danger towers. In 8 down 7 down 5 down 18 across 24 down of 15 down.’ The plant in question will be found at 14 down.

ACROSS

3 Dish of minced meat, topped with browned mashed potato (7,3) 9 See 5 down 10 Loosely coiled length of yarn (5) 12 Large primate (3) 13 Make more rigid (7) 16 Look after, care for (4) 18 Extremely (4) 20 Wine grape, noir or blanc (5) 22 One who performs alone (7) 23 Shakespearean character, and variety of Phlox paniculata (7) 25 Soft fruit (5) 26 Not as much (4) 28 Educational test (4) 31 Variety of tangerine (7) 34 One circuit of a track (3) 35 Plant of the papaver genus (5) 37 Horse-drawn open vehicle (4) 38 Variety of lupin (10)

DOWN

1 European mountain range (4) 2 Desert of Mongolia and China (4) 4 Beginning, of something unpleasant perhaps (5) 5 and 9 across Zodiac sign Leo (3,4) 6 Group of criminals (4) 7 Particular location (5) 8 All without exception (5) 11 Leg joint (4) 14 Plant that’s the subject of the quotation (7) 15 Blooms (7) 17 Hinged opening to a room (4) 18 and 21 down ‘Roses are red, ___ are ___’ (7,4) 19 Speaker’s platform (7) 21 See 18 down 24 Flying insect (4) 26 Common name of the shrub syringa (5) 27 Brown pigment (5) 29 Perhaps (5) 30 Common name for a potato (4) 32 US state, capital Salt Lake City (4) 33 Industrious insects (4) 36 Chum, friend (3)