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