The Guardian enters the Easter bank holiday with a cryptic crossword clue for the green-fingered.
This is an example of an anagram clue, with the anagram indicator being the word ‘cultivated’.
If ‘plant’s core’ is cultivated (rearranged) with ‘soil’ we get a term meaning ‘to reproduce’: CROSS-POLLINATE.
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