Complete Clue List
Across
1. Gracie Fields sang about "The Biggest ___ in the World", also called the 'cast-iron plant'
6. Chip it, mash it, roast or bake it, nickname for popular side vegetable
10. Flowering perennial, Latin name means "star"
11. Columbine or Granny's Bonnet
12. Adj., affected with boredom
13. Italian bugloss, in the borage family, ___ azurea
14. Dierama pulcherrium, known as "Fairy Fishing ___" (sing.)
15. Supercontinent 2-300 million years ago, now broken into the modern continents (var.)
16. American philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo ___
18. Juniper berries commonly flavour this spirit
19. Mandarin-grapefruit hybrid
21. Leucanthemum vulgare, known as the marguerite or ___ daisy, pl. (2,4, or 6)
23. American TV / radio network. Logo is a peacock (abbr.)
25. Semi-formal jackets for men, named after a Hudson Valley enclave (pl.)
26. Make less unpleasant
27. Dangerous atmosphere in a mine, high in CO2, low in oxygen (5,4)
29. Cotinus, with cloud-like flower formations, called either ___ bush or ___ tree
30. Soft waist or shoulder band, OR type of movable window
31. Linnaean plant class, having 20 or more stamens (obs.)
Down
1. Shrub in the rhododendron genus, sing.
2. Flower from South America. Old song, "I'm a lonely little ... in an onion patch"
3. Clematis virginiana is called the "Devil's ___", pl. (7,7)
4. Common name for Antirrhinum (pl.)
5. Protagonist of Capcom's Street Fighter series
7. Carya Glabra, common in Eastern USA and Canada, the ___ hickories, (pl.)
8. Dragon tree, ___ marginata is a tall household plant
9. Common name of Rudbeckia hirta, named for the flowers' dark centres, sing. (5-4,5)
13. Genus of broom-like flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, ___ viscosus
17. These blue, pink or white flowering plants are called Limonium or sea-lavender (pl.)
20. Toxic weeds that are harmful to the environment, people or animals
22. To captivate, charm (UK spelling)
24. Popular flowering garden plant, catmint, loved by cats and bees
28. Part of a curve, (Joan will know)