| MAYTREE | Common name for hawthorn (3,4) |
| MAY | A name for hawthorn and its blossom (3) |
| CRATAEGUS | Formal name for hawthorn, whose berries brighten winter hedgerows (9) |
| MAYFLOWER | In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigold |
| HAWKS | Nickname for Hawthorn footy team |
| MAYBLOSSOM | A symbol circulated thus, mistaken at first for hawthorn flower (3,7) |
| WINGARD | Former midfielder for Port and Hawthorn, Chad - (7) |
| SAWDUST | Result of getting teeth stuck into Hawthorn, perhaps |
| MAYPOLE | One danced around hawthorn tree with E European |
| MAKEHAY | Potassium - what a hawthorn absorbs, or dry grass |
| BLOSSOM | Flowers of the hawthorn or trees including apple, orange and cherry (the latter celebrated in the Japanese custom Hanami) (7) |
| CHEESE | Bread and -; traditional or regional name for the young, spring leaves and unopened buds of the hawthorn (6) |
| BIBIO | Scientific name of Hawthorn Fly (5) |
| DORMOUSE | From the Anglo-Norman for "sleepy one", a somnolent squirrel-like rodent nesting in woven bark and honeysuckle and feeding on berries, nuts and the blossoms of hawthorn, oak, sycamore and willow (8) |
| COCKSPUR | Word for a spike on a leg of a fighting male game fowl; a catch on a casement window; barnyard millet or orchard-grass; or, an American hawthorn armed with long spines (8) |
| ALASTAIRCLARKSON | Hawthorn coach from 2005 (8,8) |
| MAYHEM | Hawthorn border's in a wild state |
| MAIZE | Hawthorn blossom's picked up in this grass |
| MAHOGANY | Log hut built in hawthorn wood |
| QUICKSET | Hawthorn (hedge) |
