| BONGTREE | Fictional plant mentioned in The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (4-4) |
| PEARTREE | Orchard plant mentioned in The Twelve Days of Christmas (4,4) |
| BOAT | Pea-green vessel in The Owl and the Pussycat; one of the seated yoga poses; or, a jug for gravy/sauce (4) |
| SWAT | 'The Akond of -', nonsense poem by Edward Lear (4) |
| TRIFFID | Monstrous fictional plant (7) |
| TRIFID | Fictional plant |
| TRIFFIDS | Fictional plants whose name refers to three "legs" |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat travelled in by the owl and the pussycat in a nonsense poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| RUNCIBLE | ___ spoon, fictional implement in Edward Lear's The Owl And The Pussycat (8) |
| NONSENSE | Form of verse such as Lear's The Owl And The Pussycat or Carroll's Jabberwocky |
| PUSSYCAT | The Owl and the ___, poem by Edward Lear (8) |
| THEAKOND | Nonsense song by Edward Lear, last in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics (3,5,2,4) |
| LIMERICK | Humorous five-line verse with a rhyming scheme, popularised by Edward Lear (8) |
| LEAR | Painter who introduced The Owl and the PussyCat in his Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (4) |
| EDWARDLEAR | Author and poet who popularised limericks and wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (6,4) |
| TOSEA | 'The owl and the pussycat went ... in a beautiful peagreen boat' (2,3) |
| WENTTOSEA | Spooner's dispatched for a tinkle like the owl and the pussycat did (4,2,3) |
| HERB | Plant mentioned in no other book (4) |
| EDWARD | ___ Lear, writer of The Owl and the Pussycat (6) |
| HORSETAIL | Plant mentioned in Black Beauty? |
