| EACHDAY | "Don't judge _ _ by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant": Robert Louis Stevenson (4,3) |
| ABOOK | Don't judge _ ___ by its cover |
| CHIA | "Pet" that you plant |
| SESAMEOIL | An edible liquid yielded by the seeds of a tropical herbaceous plant (6,3) |
| ACORN | The seed that grows to become an oak tree |
| EASING | When I visited Newdowns Head, the sea was really rough, but by the end of the evening it was becoming less severe (6) |
| ELECTRICIANSWITCHMAN | Circuit judge, __, __, lion tamer |
| STEVEHARVEY | "Judge ___ ___" |
| HURDYGURDY | Squat, pear-shaped fiddle having strings that are sounded not by a bow but by the rosined rim of a wooden wheel turned by a handle at the instrument's end. (5,5) |
| SKIN | "...not be judged by the color of their ___, but by the content of their character": MLK |
| HYDE | Mr Edward, alter ego of Dr Henry Jekyll in the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson (4) |
| CASE | Strange ___ of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; novella by Robert Louis Stevenson (4) |
| APIA | Samoan capital with connections to Robert Louis Stevenson (4) |
| KARMA | The belief that you reap what you sow (5) |
| HOLY | A sermon from the mount - but, by whom, you interject? (4,5) |
| MOSES | A sermon from the mount - but, by whom, you interject? (4,5) |
| SEED | You plant it in the ground (4) |
| ARIL | Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed. |
| CHICKPEA | The plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its seeds that are a key ingredient in hummus (8) |
| KEEPANOPENMIND | Don't judge (4,2,4,4) |