| NOUN | 'Thyme' or 'basil' |
| HERB | Food seasoning like thyme or basil |
| POTHERB | Thyme or basil |
| MANTLE | Lady's -; often placed in herbaceous borders, gravel paths or in posies with garden roses, peonies, clove-scented pinks, lemon thyme or lavender, the flower Alchemilla (6) |
| GRAYLING | The silvery-violet freshwater salmonoid "lady of the stream" whose genus, Thymallus, refers to its reputed thyme- or herb-like scent; or, a butterfly with cryptic brown bark-coloured wings (8) |
| SEASON | Add some thyme or some time (6) |
| TSAR | Nicholas II or Basil III |
| TONI | Singer Tennille, Braxton or Basil |
| HERBS | Sage or basil, for eg (5) |
| HERBALTEASE | Chef who adds just a hint of thyme or rosemary? |
| HERBAL | Book describing the culinary and medicinal uses of plants including mint, rosemary, sage, thyme or any of those sold in a botanica (6) |
| LEMON | Citrus fruit with a scent echoed in a variety of balm, basil, geranium, grass, pelargonium, thyme and verbena (5) |
| IMBATHE | Wet chutney of basil and thyme - not salty, oddly (7) |
| MINT | Sage, rosemary or thyme |
| AROMA | Trait of tarragon or thyme |
| WORTHY | Deserving of some yarrow or thyme (6) |
| SPICE | Coriander or thyme |
| FERRIS | Played Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme (Pam ------) |
| RICOTTA | Soft, unsalted Italian food used for cheesecake, cannelloni with spinach or baked with thyme for rustic bread (7) |
| ROCKGARDEN | Arrangement of stones for alpines, creeping thyme, dianthus or aubrieta (4,6) |
