| EXTERMINATE | Applying a herbicide to weeds will effectively do this to them - rather like a Dalek! (11) |
| LINURON | A herbicide that kills weeds without harming vegetables. (7) |
| SWEET | We meet aliens and find them rather cloying (5) |
| ASHTRAY | On which the remains of the weeds will be deposited (3-4) |
| JOKINGAPART | Girl close to Dalek in space craft - seriously! |
| LIEDETECTOR | Common name for a polygraph, used to weed out fibs! (3,8) |
| ROBOTIC | Mug on old jerk like a Dalek? (7) |
| PERSISTENT | Word often applied to weeds that are difficult to kill, or pesticides that remain active for a long period (10) |
| ENEMY | A Dalek, to The Doctor |
| AUTOMATON | Mantua, too, produces a Dalek (9) |
| SPEEDWELL | The plant, a weed, will run rampant in a while |
| ROOTED | Like one's objection to weeds (6) |
| HOED | Having used a long-handled tool to weed the border, you could now say that it has been this! (4) |
| DZIGGETAI | A Central Asian wild ass, rather like a mule |
| ASHY | Of a pale greyish colour, rather like a fraxinus tree! (4) |
| WHEATEAR | Rather like a chat about a change of weather |
| FLOURISH | Do well, rather like a constituent in Rye? (8) |
| NIDICULOUS | Zoological Latin term, rather like a word for "absurd", describing a cuckoo baby, dove peep, eaglet, hawk eyas, juvenile parrot, owlet, pigeon squeaker, puffling, young woodpecker or other chick that |
| SWEDE | Gives rise to weeds produced by vegetable (5) |
| SEWED | Attached to weeds, possibly? (5) |
