| MENTIONS | Alludes to Monets in complex (8) |
| MOMA | Where to see Monets in Manhattan |
| DESIGNER | Omen in knocked back grass alludes to The Creator (8) |
| ELEPHANT | A pachyderm whose figurative occupancy in a room alludes to an obvious but ignored problem (8) |
| CONNOTES | Alludes to criminals stifling witness (8) |
| KESTRELS | Falcons whose provincial name "windhovers" alludes to their aerial skill of floating against the wind (8) |
| OAT | A cereal grass with a wild variety referred to in a phrase that alludes to dissipation, promiscuity or wildness in one's youth (3) |
| OBSERVES | Alludes |
| SUGGESTS | Alludes |
| EAST | Alludes to each street in this direction |
| REFERS | Alludes to the fact that they're freer in the South (6) |
| LETTUCE | With varieties including Little Gem, oak-leaf and mignonette, a salad plant in the daisy family whose Latin name meaning "milk" alludes to its white sap (7) |
| LILAC | With fragrant buddleia-like panicles, a plant in the olive family whose genus name Syringa, meaning "tube", alludes to its stems being used as Pan-pipes or syrinx (5) |
| NEEDLE | Bodkin-like implement whose idiomatic discovery in a haystack alludes to the impossible nature of finding something well hidden |
| FLY | A fast stagecoach; a familiar spirit; a fishing lure; a flap, such as a tent-door or zip cover; or, a dipteran whose figurative presence in ointment alludes to a small but irritating flaw (3) |
| CHERRY | A native British fruit whose figurative placement on the top of a cake alludes to a finishing touch to an already excellent situation (6) |
| COLUMBINE | From the Latin for "dove", the flower, "granny's bonnet", with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an |
| BARRELS | Casks over which helpless individuals are said to be held, as per a phrase that alludes to the image of nearly drowned people, face down over kegs, being drained of seawater (7) |
| BIFFIN | Red cooking apple whose name, from "ox for slaughter", alludes to its colour of raw beef; or, such a pome, baked and flattened in the form of a cake as a traditional Norfolk snack (6) |
| ESCALUS | Prince of Verona in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, whose name alludes to balance and justice (7) |
