| REDMAPLE | Acer rubrum, one of the most common and widespread trees of eastern and central North America (3,5) |
| WHITEOAK | Large hardwood tree of eastern and central North America with light ash-grey bark (5,3) |
| WHITEASH | Species of tree, fraxinus americana, native to eastern and central North America (5,3) |
| BEECH | Widespread tree of southern English forests |
| BUZZARD | The UK's most common and most widespread bird of prey (7) |
| PREDOMINATE | Be most common and talk foolishly about retrograde style that's fashionable |
| STEENBOK | A small antelope of eastern and southern Africa, with a reddish-brown coat and straight smooth horns (8) |
| ANDRADAY | Singer who performed "Stand Up for Something" at the 2018 Oscars, accompanied by Common and various activists: 2 wds. |
| PANDEMIC | Imp dance became very catchy and widespread (8) |
| INFUSION | Fashionable combination of eastern and western remedy |
| CAPECROW | Corvid of eastern and southern Africa (4,4) |
| ASHEBORO | Central North Carolina city |
| ALOEVERA | Cosmetic ingredient, mostly common and always kept in identical articles (4,4) |
| WOODMOUSE | One of the most common small mammals of the UK and British Isles (4,5) |
| ARMSTRONG | Mrs Gnat or the first man to 'Neil' on the moon - as in the cultivar of Acer rubrum! (9) |
| HURON | One of the Great Lakes of central North America |
| ASHPLANT | Constitutional asset with crook entertaining Commons and Lords? |
| AGA | One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins. |
| FIVE | The number of 'Great Lakes' that are clustered in east-central North America (4) |
| AMPERSAND | Member of the House of Commons and the Queen, and a state leader, and... And... (9) |
