| BROCCOLI | A type of vegetable with green leafy stalks whose varieties include purple and sprouting (8) |
| CELERIAC | A type of vegetable with a large, white root (8) |
| LEEK | Symbolic Welsh stalk whose name is a homophone of "drip, trickle, weep", yet, unlike its cousin the onion, rarely causes crying or tears (4) |
| MARROW | The inner meaning of vegetable with a rind (6) |
| PRINCE | Singer and songwriter whose albums include Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times |
| KAFIR | Grain sorghum with stout, leafy stalks |
| OKRA | Vegetable with green seedpods |
| HENDRIX | Guitarist whose hits include Purple Haze (4,7) |
| JIMI | Guitarist whose hits include Purple Haze (4,7) |
| BRASSICA | Officers ordering CIA a type of vegetable (8) |
| CAMELLIA | An evergreen shrub with brilliant foliage whose varieties include japonica and williamsi (8) |
| RAPESEED | Type of vegetable oil (8) |
| CLEMATIS | Climbing plant whose varieties include Old Man's Beard and Traveller's Joy (8) |
| POTHERBS | General word for oleraceous edible greens, leafy vegetables, salad crops and other culinary plants for cookery and kitchen use (3,5) |
| GREENTEA | Drink whose varieties include gunpowder and matcha (5,3) |
| OLA | Suffix with can for a type of vegetable oil |
| OAK | I've heard it grows from a type of vegetable (3) |
| SHALLOT | Everyone rushed outside for a type of vegetable ... |
| PICKLE | Type of vegetable or fruit preserve served with bread and cheese (6) |
| HELMET | Part of a medieval suit of armour whose varieties include the basinet, morion and sallet (6) |
