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NUMBER 1

Use the following answers to complete the opening lines of Flanders & Swann’s A Song of the Weather: ‘January 14 across the 27 down, 23 down 18 across 30 across and 10 across 6 down.’

ACROSS

8 Citrus-flavoured soft drink (9) 9 Big cat (4) 10 Green ___, a successful gardener’s a ributes! (7) 12 Cu ing the lawn (6) 13 Affirmative answer (3) 14 Fetches to a place (6) 17 River-edge (4) 18 and 19 This Is ___, former long-running television programme (4,4) 20 Garden party (4) 21 Desire for a drink (6) 22 Male cat (3) 24 Plant of the mint family, used as a culinary herb (6) 26 States confidently (7) 30 Anagram of 20 across 31 Game played on skates (3,6)

DOWN

1 Animal giving the lupin its name (4) 2 Daybreak (4) 3 Fairy-tale giant (4) 4 Grassland flower, Bellis perennis (5) 5 Oxfordshire manor where William Morris lived and worked (9) 6 Give out a light without flame (4) 7 Popular variety of po ing compost (4,5) 11 Kind and tender (6) 15 Delicate scent made from petals (4,5) 16 Metal fastening with a guarded point (6,3) 17 Mark of damage on a fruit skin (6) 23 Compels (5) 25 Porridge ingredient (4) 27 ‘___-in-summer’, common name of cerastium (4) 28 Leaf-gathering implement, perhaps (4) 29 Inner Hebridean island (4)