The Southern Star Crossword 15/11/24

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Across
  1. 2. Highly seasoned Italian sausage (6)
  2. 4. Long curl of hair (7)
  3. 9. Spanish broad-brimmed hat (8)
  4. 10. Substance which neutralises acids (6)
  5. 12. Plant with pungent root grated as a condiment (11)
  6. 14. A wild llama
  7. 15. The lime tree (6)
  8. 18. An object of worship (4)
Down
  1. 1. Sir Peter —, C.B.E., famous theatre director (4)
  2. 3. Substance used by South American Indians to poison arrows (6)
  3. 5. A kind of Mesembryanthemum (3,5)
  4. 6. Popular beverage (3)
  5. 7. Tooth-like projection on the rim of a wheel (3)
  6. 8. Cloth woven from flax (5)
  7. 11. French impressionist painter of ballet scenes (5)
  8. 12. Portable case or bag for clothes, etc. (7)
  9. 13. Name of an ice shelf in Antarctica that calved a 315 billion-tonne iceberg in 2019 (5)
  10. 16. Device for drawing prize-winning numbers of Premium Bonds in the UK (5)
  11. 17. The lime tree