| MAYTREE | The hawthorn (3,4) |
| 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) |
| MAY | In England, the hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) is also called the ___ flower - and we're just entering this month! (3) |
| MAYBLOSSOM | But will the hawthorn flower? |
| 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) |
| WBA | Initialism for the football club whose home is The Hawthorns (3) |
| WESTBROMWICHALBION | Football team whose home ground is the Hawthorns (4,8,6) |
| WEST | Football club whose home ground is The Hawthorns (4,8,6) |
| ALBION | Football club whose home ground is The Hawthorns (4,8,6) |
| BROMWICH | Football club whose home ground is The Hawthorns (4,8,6) |
| 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 | Craft on the hawthorn (9) |
| MAYDAY | A cry for help reveals Doris behind the hawthorn blossom(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) |
