| BROCCOLI | Vegetable in the family that includes collard greens, cauliflower and kale (8) |
| BRASSICA | Latin word for cabbage and thus the genus that includes the aforenamed vegetable and its relatives broccoli, cauliflower and mustard (8) |
| SAPUCAIA | Monkey pot or paradise nut tree in the family that includes the anchovy-pear, Brazil and cannonball-tree (8) |
| CHENOPOD | From the Greek for "goose foot", a plant in the family that includes amaranth, beetroot, mangel-wurzel, quinoa, spinach and sugar beet (8) |
| PLANTAIN | A banana that is harvested green and used as a vegetable in the tropics (8) |
| CABBAGE | Cruciferous vegetable in the family that includes broccoli, cauliflower, kale and mustard (7) |
| SOULFOOD | Chitterlings, collard greens and the like |
| LAVENDER | Sea -; coastal flower in the family that includes thrift or sea pink that retains its purple colour when dried (8) |
| MARIGOLD | Flower in the family that includes chrysanthemums, daisies and dahlias with a species used as a companion plant (8) |
| SPRINGGREENS | Heartless leaf vegetable in the family that includes borecole, broccoli, cabbage, kale and kohlrabi (6,6) |
| BEARSEAR | Another name for auricula, a flower in the family that includes primrose, cowslip, oxlip and cyclamen (5,3) |
| SEALIONS | Marine mammals in the family that includes walruses (3,5) |
| DELICACY | Food shop for cauliflower and cheese starters to go with unknown quantity of frogs' legs, for instance (8) |
| CABBAGES | Heads of Savoy and Kale (8) |
| PARSNIP | Typically roasted, stewed or made into crisps, a root vegetable in the family that includes carrots, celery and celeriac (7) |
| SQUASHES | Edible vegetables in the gourd family (8) |
| BRUSSELS | Capital of Belgium; or, linked with "sprouts" for vegetables in the Brassica genus (8) |
| CRUCIFER | From the Latin for "cross", a person carrying a small rood in a church procession; or, a brassica with four-petalled cross-shaped flowers, such as broccoli, cabbage, collard, kale, mustard or turnip ( |
| ALOOGOBI | Cauliflower-and-potato Indian dish |
| POTATOES | Vegetables in the strange oat pesto (8) |
