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Today's crossword topic is flowers:

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Across

  • Daffodils, erica, dogbane, ursi, candytuft and tithonia.
  • Daphne, eustoma, dianthus, orchid, ixia and dietes.

Down

  • Alstroemeria, dianella and day.
  • Ursinias and petunia.

Hints

The tags and don’t truly apply, but they might help your thought process.
I'm pretty sure that $f = 6$.
The values for each box aren't quite letters.

Today's entry is number .1269994261.

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Across

Daffodils, erica, dogbane, ursi, candytuft and tithonia. == DEDUCT
Daphne, eustoma, dianthus, orchid, ixia and dietes. == DEDOID (? DIVIDE ?)

Down

Alstroemeria, dianella and day. == ADD
Ursinias and petunia. == UP

Plugging in the Positions (A==1,B==2,C==3,D==4) of the Starting letters:
CROSSWORD

Still Thinking:

(1) Hmmm, Image has changed in lengths on the ACROSS
(2) A435 is a highway in UK , and also a Device from Samsung ....
(3) D2 == 16 == P ?
(4) A435E == 14355 ?
(5) Clue to convert letters to numbers is : 6 == f

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    $\begingroup$ Getting warm. I'll add a hint to help out. :) $\endgroup$
    – Taco
    Commented Sep 28, 2021 at 16:52
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    $\begingroup$ Also, for your "still thinking" section; 1 was a posting error, 2 is way off target, 3 think square, 4 think concatenation. Also, notice the instructions in your solution. $\endgroup$
    – Taco
    Commented Sep 28, 2021 at 18:30
  • $\begingroup$ @Tacoタコス , Thanks for the new hints; I am stuck making sense of DEDOID & the Black Square .... $\endgroup$
    – Prem
    Commented Sep 29, 2021 at 12:10

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