| LADIESFIRST | ... while generosity towards them disappears, evergreen in the end (6,5) |
| GOODWILL | Feeling of generosity towards others (8) |
| DISPELS | Spies LD with them and makes them disappear (7) |
| SELLLIKEHOTCAKES | Deal in recently cooked food and see them disappear very quickly (4,4,3,5) |
| BILLS | Wishful fiscal thinking: Given the rising cost of living, everyone needs a magic wand that can make them disappear |
| COTONEASTER | Decorative evergreen in the rose family |
| FIR | Evergreen in the genus Abies (3) |
| ABUTILON | Genus of evergreens in the mallow family including the shrub Trailing ___ (8) |
| VERGE | Transplant half the evergreens in the border (5) |
| JUNIPER | Evergreen in the cypress family |
| YEW | With red cup-shaped arils, a churchyard evergreen in the genus Taxus, often living to a great age (3) |
| BEARDOWNON | See large beast in Ulster with odd oink move towards them, menacingly |
| PROTEINS | Pointers towards them in meat, eggs etc. |
| SMOTHER | To make someone feel trapped by acting in an overly protective way towards them (7) |
| PHILOPROGENITIVE | Having many offspring, or showing love towards them |
| LUNGE | Essentially, large gnu leaps up, making a sudden move towards them |
| MATAI | Leaving an island, Polynesian-themed cocktail becomes an evergreen in NZ |
| OLIVETREE | Evergreen in Eliot's verse 'withered with no trace of sun' (5,4) |
| FIRTREE | Evergreen in flames around junction - concerning |
| XMASTREE | Seasonal evergreen, in brief |
