| KNAPWEED | A tough-stemmed plant with purple thistle-like flower heads, often found in grassland and on roadsides (8) |
| THRIFT | A plant with pink flower heads, often growing on sea cliffs and mountains (6) |
| CARDOON | Cynara cardunculus with purple thistle flowers - one in cordon, perhaps (7) |
| MEASURED | Weighed safe found in grassland |
| FIELDVOLE | Small rodent relative of hamsters found in grassland (9) |
| PHDS | Degrees held by university department heads often: Abbr. |
| RHUBARB | Edible pink-stemmed plant with a sharp taste (7) |
| MALLOW | Hairy-stemmed plant with disc-shaped fruit (6) |
| HAREBELL | Perennial slender-stemmed plant with pale blue drooping flowers; Campanula rotundifolia (8) |
| ARTICHOKES | Globe -; plants with thistle-like flower heads containing edible hearts, often found in old walled kitchen gardens (10) |
| COCKSPUR | Maltese ?, European plant of the daisy family with yellow thistle-like flower heads (8) |
| ARTICHOKE | European plant cultivated for its large, edible, thistle-like flower head (9) |
| SALSIFY | A Mediterranean plant with purple flower heads and a long, white edible taproot (7) |
| ADONISBLUE | Found in herb-rich chalk grassland and wildflower meadows with horseshoe vetch in central southern England, one of the UK's rarest butterflies (6,4) |
| LIONS | Known as the "kings of the jungle", animals living in prides in savannas, grasslands and forests of India and Africa, and the Longleat estate in Wilshire (5) |
| SNIPE | Forming in wisps and drumming in aerial courtship displays, a wading bird of grasslands and marshes related to woodcocks, curlews and sandpipers (5) |
| SORREL | A common plant in grassland areas of Mallorca, used as a leaf vegetable and herb and also known as spinach dock (6) |
| HAT | Covering for the head, often with a brim and worn out of doors |
| TACK | A short nail with a broad, flat head, often used for fastening carpets to the floor (4) |
| FOXGLOVE | Herbaceous plant with purple, yellow or white bell like flowers, though the Balearic variety is usually a lighter pink in colour, it is toxic but has medicinal uses and is the source of the heart-stim |
