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Wordplay, misdirection and gardening conundrums…

hen Bloom asked me to compile a gardening crossword, the big question was how to avoid saying ‘plant’ 32 times in 32 clues. In my day job as crossword setter Zandio at , the entire dictionary is my oyster. Moonlighting in

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