| MAYBLOSSOM | A symbol circulated thus, mistaken at first for hawthorn flower (3,7) |
| MAY | Name for hawthorn; its blossom, traditionally gathered to celebrate the first day of a month named after a fertility goddess of springtime; or, one's bloom, early life, flush or prime (3) |
| CRATAEGUS | Formal name for hawthorn, whose berries brighten winter hedgerows (9) |
| MAYFLOWER | In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigold |
| ERRATA | Be mistaken at a lot of printing slips |
| MAYTREE | Alternative name for hawthorn (3,4) |
| HAWKS | Nickname for Hawthorn footy team |
| COWPARSLEY | Also known as Queen Anne's lace, a delicate white flower of hedgerows and woodland edges with herb Robert, red campion and blossoming hawthorn (3,7) |
| INCORRECT | Mistaken, at home make better (9) |
| FLYTRAPS | Faraday partly mistaken at school by those using honey rather than vinegar, as the saying goes (8) |
| EMILYBATES | Hawthorn Hawks midfielder (5,5) |
| COCKSPUR | Word for a spike on a leg of a fighting male game fowl; a catch on a casement window; barnyard millet or orchard-grass; or, an American hawthorn armed with long spines (8) |
| CHAMPION | Hawthorn's first in flower - the first in the field (8) |
| COTONEASTER | Bed with a single flower showing shrub of the hawthorn family (11) |
| GAUDRY | First female AFL CEO, at Hawthorn in 2017, Tracey ... (6) |
| BERYL | 0-6-0DM locomotive built as Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 7697 and which found a home at the Tanfield Railway (5) |
| DORMOUSE | From the Anglo-Norman for "sleepy one", a somnolent squirrel-like rodent nesting in woven bark and honeysuckle and feeding on berries, nuts and the blossoms of hawthorn, oak, sycamore and willow (8) |
| CORYMB | Flat-topped flower cluster whose stalks grow from different points on a stem but reach an equivalent height, as in hawthorn, candytuft etc. (6) |
| MAYHEM | Hawthorn border's in a wild state |
| TAMARACK | Tree, a hawthorn almost blocking path (8) |
