| LILAC | A plant in the olive family whose genus name Syringa, meaning "tube" (5) |
| OLEA | Type genus of the olive family, whose members include the ash, privet, jasmine etc. (4) |
| ORCAS | Marine animals whose genus name means "of the kingdom of the dead" |
| KOALA | Animal whose genus name, Phascolarctos, means "pouch bear" |
| NODDY | Blytonian companion of Big Ears; a tern whose genus Anous means "stupid" or "foolish"; the ancestor of cribbage; or, the jack in this game (5) |
| HOBBY | Eurasian -; dragonfly-hunting falcon whose genus designation became the name of the football game Subbuteo (5) |
| FORSYTHIA | Genus of plants in the olive family with yellow flowers (9) |
| BEETS | Vegetables whose genus shares its name with a Greek letter |
| ACKEE | Jamaica's national fruit whose genus, Blighia, honours William Bligh who took said fruit from said island to Kew Gardens in 1793 (5) |
| ASH | Tree in the olive family, known as the "Venus of the woods" (3) |
| OSMANTHUS | Genus of fragrant shrubs in the olive family - man shouts out (9) |
| CAMPION | Said in classical times to have been used for victors' crowns, a pink, red or white wild flower whose genus name Silene derives from the name of wine god Dionysus' drunken tutor (7) |
| ORCA | Sea creature whose genus name comes from the Latin for "of the kingdom of the dead" |
| LEMONBALM | Often planted near apiaries and used in herb pillows and natural remedies, flagrant perennial whose genus name Melissa derives from the Greek word for honeybee (5,4) |
| PERIWINKLE | Plant known as creeping myrtle, whose genus name, Vinca, means "bind"; the blue colour of its flowers; or, a spiral-shelled sea snail (10) |
| JASMINE | Flower in the olive family |
| BOA | Creature whose genus name and English name are the same |
| MAYFLY | A "green-drake" whose genus name, Ephemera, means "short lived" or "lasting only a day" (6) |
| BEET | Vegetable whose genus name is also a Greek letter |
| SYRINGA | Plant genus of the olive family (Oleaceae) to which the lilacs belong (7) |
