| AGAVE | A desert plant with leaves that can be used to make ropes, brushes, sandals, nets, and sleeping mats (5) |
| ALOE | A desert plant with lance-shaped leaves and a flower that appears only at the end of its life (4) |
| STINGINGNETTLES | A wild Eurasian plant with leaves that can cause pain (8,7) |
| PALLET | Sleeping mat |
| LAUREL | ____ wreath, one of interlocking leaves that can be worn on the head to symbolise victory (6) |
| GARLANDS | Wreaths of flowers or leaves that can be worn on the head (8) |
| ESPARTO | Coarse grass native to Spain and North Africa with tough narrow leaves used to make ropes, wickerwork and good quality paper |
| SLUG | A slow garden-dweller that seems simple but is actually a silver trail-making thousand-toothed stalk-eyed hermaphrodite gastropod that uses its slime to make "ropes" to rappel from high places (4) |
| HEDGEROW | With leaves that fall in the winter providing dormice, toads,"urchins" and other wildlife a warm place to hibernate, a line of wild shrubs and occasional small trees bordering a field, lane or road (8 |
| SISAL | Mexican agave plant in the family Asparagaceae whose leaf fibres are used to make ropes, matting etc. (5) |
| HEMP | Plant used to make ropes |
| NARROWBOAT | Steered with a tiller and often fitted with compact kitchen, pot-bellied stove and sleeping quarters, a barge-like vessel designed to fit the UK's locks (10) |
| CACTUS | About to perform with you and me on a desert plant |
| LARIATS | It takes art to sail and to make ropes (7) |
| NETTLES | Esteemed by tortoiseshells, red admirals and other butterflies, a foraged plant with leaves used for tea, soup or to wrap the Cornish cheese yarg (7) |
| FLAX | Crop grown for the seeds and threads used to make fabric, dye, paper, medicines, fishing nets and so |
| SACS | Pharyngeal pouches or air ___sacs can hold 49 litres of air and this enables the walrus to float in the water in a vertical position while nursing its young and sleeping |
| HAWTHORN | Symbolising May in the Celtic tree calendar, a hedgerow plant with leaves/ flowers known as bread and cheese (8) |
| DOCK | Plant with leaves traditionally administered to children as a placebo or remedy for nettle stings (4) |
| YUCCA | Desert plant with sword-shaped leaves |
