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Crossword roundup: pubs and their gardens

drink (10,3) [ wordplay: synonym for “love” containing (“coming round”) synonym for “scoff” without last letter (“short”), then name of a meal] [DARLING containing JEER – R, then TEA] [ definition: drink] … for DARJEELING TEA. Teas can get their names from their colours (black, say, or yellow), from where they’re grown (Assam) or from what they look like (gunpowder); my favourites are more involved, like the red bush of rooibos, Darjeeling itself (“land of the thunderbolt”) and the subject of our next challenge. The legend – one of the legends, anyway – is that a poor farmer in China’s Fujian province patiently renovated a dilapidated temple dedicated to a goddess of mercy and was rewarded with a shoot of a plant which turned out to be the tastiest tea he’d ever drunk. He grew it, then got rich selling it under the name Iron Bodhisattva of Compassion, which became the snappier Black Dragon – or the name we use now: reader, how would you clue

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