| MAYTREE | The common hawthorn (3,4) |
| BLOSSOM | Flowers of the hawthorn or trees including apple, orange and cherry (the latter celebrated in the Japanese custom Hanami) (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 |
| WINGARD | Former midfielder for Port and Hawthorn, Chad - (7) |
| MAYFLOWER | Springtime blossom of hawthorn; the trailing arbutus; or, the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 (9) |
| MAY | Last month of spring whose first day is traditionally associated with the folk custom of the jack-in-the-green; or, a name for hawthorn and its blossom (3) |
| CHEESE | Bread and -; traditional or regional name for the young, spring leaves and unopened buds of the hawthorn (6) |
| 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) |
| CHAMPION | Hawthorn's first in flower - the first in the field (8) |
| MAYBLOSSOM | But will the hawthorn flower? |
| HAWKS | The nickname for AFL team Hawthorn |
| THAWED | Edward admits the hawthorn fruit melted (6) |
| HAW | Red fruit of the hawthorn |
| COTONEASTER | Bed with a single flower showing shrub of the hawthorn family (11) |
| CURSE | Geelong's dominance over Hawthorn after the 2008 Grand Final, Kennett ... (5) |
| BERYL | 0-6-0DM locomotive built as Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 7697 and which found a home at the Tanfield Railway (5) |
| LUKEHODGE | Ex-Hawthorn captain, at the Lions from 2018 (4,5) |
| SAND | Violent 2004 Hawthorn-Essendon match, Line in the ... (4) |
