| COCO | --- de mer, palm tree that yields the world's largest plant seed |
| STEMS | Units of reproduction of flowering plants, the world's biggest being that of the coco de mer palm, the world's biggest (5) |
| ACAI | ___ palm (tree that produces purple berries) |
| MIRAGES | Palm trees that aren't really there |
| ASSAI | Brazilian palm trees that have small dark purple fleshy edible fruit. (5) |
| HENBANE | Poisonous Mediterranean plant that yields the drug hyoscyamine |
| MOD | Operation that yields the remainder from dividing two numbers, in math lingo |
| CEDES | Formally yields the propagative parts of the plant we say (5) |
| PATENTLEATHER | Plant tree that yields a high ly-polished product (6,7) |
| ZERO | A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number (4) |
| ADMITSDEFEAT | A faded stem, it disintegrates and yields the palm (6,6) |
| PADAUK | Tree that yields a reddish wood resembling mahogany (6) |
| TAMARIND | Tropical African tree that yields pods, widely used as a flavouring in Asian cooking (8) |
| CASSIA | Tropical Asian tree that yields a coarse kind of cinnamon |
| REDMAPLE | Colorful tree that yields syrup: 2 wds. |
| SANDALWOOD | Indian tree that yields a fragrant timber and oil (10) |
| CEDAR | Tree that yields fragrant durable wood (5) |
| CORKWOOD | Shrub or tree that yields light porous timber (8) |
| RELENTS | Yields the Spanish received in payments (7) |
| ANNATTO | Small tropical American tree, Bixa orellana, whose pulpy seeds yield the food colouring E160b |
