| ELATA | Latin term meaning 'tall' - as seen in Weigela taxonomy (5) |
| WEI | Dynasty that ruled in North China from 220AD, found in weigela! (3) |
| ELANA | Variety or species name meaning 'tall' (5) |
| RUMBA | Pink-red blooming weigela cultivar and a Cuban ballroom dance (5) |
| NANUS | Latin term meaning 'dwarf' - in Perpignan, usually! (5) |
| CELLO | Stringed instrument that's often as tall as its seated musician |
| GENUS | Subdivision in a biological taxonomy (5) |
| ORDER | In taxonomy, the rank above family and below class (5) |
| ADHOC | Latin term meaning 'to this' (2,3) |
| LATIN | Language used for biological taxonomy (5) |
| CLASS | Social division or the rank in taxonomy that comes between the phylum and order of a plant or animal |
| URSID | 'Bear', in Taxonomy |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet whose surname meaning "tall one" or "tall companion" is most seemly, for he stands as one of the giants in American literary history (10) |
| ABEL | Cain's brother, as in the Weigela '___ Carriere' (4) |
| DEFACTO | Latin term meaning 'in reality' (2,5) |
| ANGLICE | Latin term meaning 'in English' or 'in the English form' (7) |
| LILLIPUT | Island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, where the inhabitants are 6in tall, as in the cultivars of agapanthus and Tulipa humilis (8) |
| MOA | Bird that grew as tall as 12 feet |
| ETNA | It's over twice as tall as Vesuvius |
| STEALLFALLS | Scotland's second highest, single drop waterfall - tall as fells, maybe (6,5) |
