SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No 50 – December 12

Across: 5 Hazel 8 Sunshine 9 Sours 10 Sloe 11 Dig up 12 Elf 15 Flanders 18 Ache 20 Acts 21 Straight 22 The 27 Tower 28 Sage 30 Harem 31 Rosse i 32 Needs. Down: 1 Full 2 Aspen 3 Birds 4 Pergola 5 Hispanica 6 Zeus 7 Lush 10 Sweets 13 Fair 14 Christmas 16 East 17 Silene 19 Showers 23 Grass 24 Osier 25 When 26 Brie 29 Gets. Hidden quotation: ‘A gardener’s life is full of sweets and sours; he gets the sunshine when he needs the showers’. Winner of Crossword No 50 is Miriam Parnham from Derriford, Plymouth.