Weekly prize crossword
Once you have completed the crossword, take the letters in the shaded squares and rearrange them to spell out the name of a flower. This is your prize answer.
ACROSS
1 Bright reddish-pink colour (6)
4 Population count (6)
9 Bog rosemary, or a northern constellation (9)
10 Honey badger (5)
11 Cut of pork, eg (4)
12 Spicy South Asian curry cooked in a thin metal bowl (5)
14 Yorkshire cathedral city (5)
15 List of accepted works —such as books of the Bible, eg (5)
17 Open square in a city (5)
19 Fibre made from coconut husks (4)
21 House built from snow by the Inuit people (5)
23 Genus that includes ebony and persimmon trees (9)
24 Ordinar y seaman (6)
25 Pacific Ocean current that affects the weather (2,4)
DOWN
1 Angel represented as a winged child (6)
2 Underground part of a plant (4)
3 Another name for spring onion (8)
5 Greek god of love (4)
6 Fragrant climbing plant aka Lathyrus odoratus (5,3)
7 Shrub with showy blossoms, rose of - - - (6)
8 Improvise (2-3)
13 Common name for plants of the genus pulmonaria in the borage family (8)
14 Act of revenge or retaliation (8)
15 - - - toffee, brittle treat (6)
16 Area for squash or tennis (5)
18 Live at the - - -, BBC Two stand-up comedy series (6)
20 Final washing machine cycle (4)
22 Trickster god of Norse mytholog y (4)
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