week 3

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Across
  1. 1. Around the 20th of March : vernal ___ (7)
  2. 4. Cardboard sport (3)
  3. 5. Pasta shape and half of a film genre (9)
  4. 7. Pirate drink (4)
  5. 8. The feeling of staring at a blank page (10)
  6. 12. To grow in Deutschland (9)
  7. 15. Scandinavian creatures featured in the novels of Tove Jansson (6)
  8. 16. Colourless Korean beverage (4)
  9. 17. The only animal that could theoretically make its own custard (8)
  10. 18. Cocoa cake fabric (6)
Down
  1. 2. Author of Never Let Me Go (8)
  2. 3. Unwilling to take risks (11)
  3. 4. City home to the River Spree (6)
  4. 6. “The first celebrity” (5)
  5. 9. Americans call them overalls (9)
  6. 10. Sweet agreement (8)
  7. 11. Also ‘leaf’ in French : Elliot __ (4)
  8. 13. Thingy, crisp (6)
  9. 14. Small boat carried by a bigger boat (6)