| CANKER | An open wound in the stem of a tree or shrub, caused by injury or parasites (6) |
| PAIN | Highly unpleasant sensation caused by injury or illness (4) |
| COBBLED | Horse showed effects of open wound in oldworld street (7) |
| LEAFGAP | Space in the stem of a plant through which a leaf grows (4,3) |
| LENTICEL | A breathing pore in the stem of a woody plant (8) |
| INVALID | Person disabled by injury or sickness (7) |
| PITH | Cellular medulla in the stems of dicotyledonous plants; the similar spongy white mesocarp of an orange; a feather's interior; or, by extension, the crux or essence of something (4) |
| BRANCH | One of a number of boughs of a tree; or, by extension, a conceptual subdivision of a department, family, group of languages, subject etc (6) |
| LAWYER | A solicitor; dialect for a bramble or the stem of a brier; or, a burbot (6) |
| ACACIA | The wattle, a tree or shrub native to Asia and Australia (6) |
| RING | A band of gold or silver, sometimes set with gems; an "elf circle" of champignon mushrooms on a woodland floor; one of the concentric markings in the trunk of a tree; or, a disc of matter orbiting Sat |
| SUFFIX | Element following the stem of a word (6) |
| BLEEDS | Has an open wound |
| TWINGE | Pain from wound in the flanks (6) |
| HARLEM | Where, in New York, the French are beset by injury? (6) |
| WAND | From the Old Norse word "vondr" meaning "shoot of a tree" or "twig", a rod used by a conjurer, diviner, fairy, magician etc; a conductor's baton; a marker in archery; or, a miniature brush/stick for a |
| SPONGE | A hanger-on or parasite (6) |
| DAMAGE | Many a game spoilt by injury (6) |
| NOFFKE | Queensland paceman had 2001 Ashes tour cut short by injury (6) |
| LIMPID | Clear gait impeded by injury I ultimately suffered (6) |
