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Garden Plot

A puzzle that's anything but garden-variety.

A delightful crossword rooted in gardening, botany, and literature, with plenty of clever wordplay and puns sprouting up throughout the grid.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

2.Minty leaf used in Japanese cuisine
5.___ upon a thyme?
6.Shakespeare's forest in "As You Like It"
8.Flower's colorful flourish
9.Flowering spire in a garden
11.Junction on a stem
12.Name that means 'fragrance' in Arabic

Down

1.Protective case for a pea
2.Where hair roots are found?
3.Mary Lennox, in "The Secret Garden," for one
4.It holds up the flower... or the wine glass
7.Patron of a botanical garden, perhaps
8.Source of light or a tulip
10.Morning drops on the grass

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