Crossword

Test your knowledge on the theme of trees with our crossword from the 82nd Issue of ITF’s journal, Trees.

Clues

Cryptic clues in italics

Across

1. Best used well-seasoned to stay warm (8)

6. Long-lived Mediterranean tree known for its oil (5)

8. Cut off the top and branches to encourage new growth (7)

10. Found inside plums (6)

11. Spiky South American tree is simian mystery (6,6)

12. 'Live, love leaf' could be ITF's new one! (5)

15. Site of infamous felling (8,3)

18. Invasive bush found in Kenya and other parts of Africa (7)

19. Ideal soil for tree planting (4)

20. Nuts known as 'marrons' in France, used in cooking (9)

21. Prickly savannah tree found in our logo (6)

23. Robin's old stomping ground (8)

28. Grows vigorously (7)

29. We tell the age of trees with confused grins (5)

30. Left inside sacred companion for ivy (5)

31. Spread your bets and argue to create a bushy field divider (8)

32. Holm oak, for example (9)

33. Sits above family and below class in tree classification (5)

Down

2. Oddly, I contain main barrier to tackling climate change (8)

3. Winnie the Pooh character who lived in 'The Chestnuts' (3)

4. Sounds like the police in America making a small woodland (5)

5. Excitement of a bumbling pollinator (4)

7. Climbing plant whose fruit makes wine (4)

8. Main job of a leaf (14)

9. Stage when an apple is ready to pick (4)

13. Small tree coppiced for making hurdle fences (5)

14. Prehistoric tree found growing in New South Wales in 1994 (7,4)

16. In biological taxonomy this comes after phylum and before order (5)

17. Iconic tree in Constable’s landscapes (3)

22. Mythological ‘world tree’ in Norse culture (3)

24. National park famous for ponies with plans to increase woodland (6)

25. Where Beverley Pippin and Annie Elizabeth usually live (7)

26. Tree-____: a bird or other animal that lives in trees (7)

27. Yearns intensely for coniferous trees (5)

28. I hear it’s the moment for a garden herb (5)