Weekly prize crossword

Use the following answers to complete a quotation from My Summer in a Garden (1871) by Charles Dudley Warner: ‘The 4 down may 26 down 9 across 31 across, but 6 down 26 down not 20 across, and 21 across without 20 across is a 17 down 10 down.’

ACROSS

5 H. E. ___, author of The Darling Buds of May (5) 8 Tree trained to grow flat along a wall (8) 9 and 18 across Stars in ___, TV talent show that premiered in 1990 (5,4) 10 and 28 across Home Guard TV sitcom (4,4) 11 Ground-dwelling songbird (5) 12 Male child (3) 15 Burned the surface of (8) 18 See 9 across 20 Grass and earth it’s growing in (4) 21 ___ Is Not Enough, 1999 James Bond film (3,5) 22 Type of rose, or hot drink (3) 27 Tree of the Betula genus (5) 28 See 10 across 30 Variety or species name meaning ‘tall’ (5) 31 Pleases greatly (8) 32 See 26 down

DOWN

1 Largest continent (4) 2 Caltha palustris, the ‘___ marigold’ (5) 3 Sharply cold (5) 4 Areas north and south of the equator (7) 5 Type of squash (9) 6 Plural of ‘it’ (4) 7 Certain (4) 10 Waterless, desolate land (6) 13 River on which Peterborough stands (4) 14 Common name of Melissa officinalis (5,4) 16 Handle of an axe, for example (3) 17 Depressingly dull (6) 19 US state whose name means ‘flowery’ (7) 23 White soft limestone (5) 24 Fleshy tropical fruit (5) 25 Group of cattle (4) 26 and 32 across ‘I ___ a ___’, famous 1963 Martin Luther King speech (4,5) 29 Chiefly nocturnal flying insect (4)