Across
- 4. Traditional Hawaiian greeting (5)
- 5. Male merlins or donkeys (5)
- 8. The colour of the ball worth four points in snooker (5)
- 10. Soft fruits with varieties including little scarlet and English rose (12)
- 12. Kernels/nuts used for marzipan (7)
- 14. Author of the Discworld series (9)
- 15. Food grown by a pomologist (5)
- 16. Largest Mediterranean island (6)
- 17. Collective noun for ladybirds (10)
Down
- 1. Former monetary unit of Greece (7)
- 2. Capital of Japan, formerly Edo (5)
- 3. Grappling combat sport contested by the Ancient Greeks who called it pale (9)
- 6. World’s longest mountain range (5)
- 7. A series of connected locomotives and carriages/trucks (5)
- 9. 2023 novel by American author Nathan Hill, best known for his acclaimed debut The Nix (8)
- 11. The largest of penguins (7)
- 13. Wooden peg used in joinery (5)
- 15. Fencing sword; or, metal food wrap (4)