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When all the answers are in place the le ers in the squares across the top and bo om of the grid, and the le ers in squares 10 to 20, will spell out three words that can follow ‘silver’, each being a variety of 21 across.

ACROSS

8 Location of Botany Bay (9) 9 ‘Li le ___’, variety of clematis sharing its name with a Dickens’ character… (4) 10 and 29 across …and a variety of Thymus serpyllum sharing its name with a Woody Allen film (5,4) 11 Loud sounds (6) 12 Zero score (3) 14 Journey by sea (6) 15 Not difficult (4) 16 Isle of Wight resort (4) 19 Beams of light, maybe (4) 21 Prickly flowering shrub (4) 23 Waterways (6) 25 Floor covering (3) 27 Particular plant variety (6) 28 Inspire with a feeling (5) 29 See 10 across 30 Alternative name for the sweet briar (9)

DOWN

1 Country of origin of japonica (5) 2 Normal, customary (5) 3 Wild American horse, and an award-winning variety of sempervivum (6) 4 Against the law (7) 5 Wash clothes – or money? (7) 6 The initial E of the British Army corps that’s abbreviated to RE (9) 7 Young eels (6) 13 Climbing plant of the hedera genus (3) 14 Edible plant (9) 17 Having a pleasant aroma (7) 18 Liverpool FC stadium (7) 20 Second person pronoun (3) 22 Robin Hood, perhaps (6) 24 Cedrus ___, the Cedar of Lebanon (6) 25 Sticky substance exuded by some trees (5) 26 Norwegian composer of the Peer Gynt Suites (5)