| LAMELLA | Any of the spore-bearing gills of a mushroom |
| OPERCULUM | Bony flap serving as a cover, as for the gills of a fish (9) |
| GLEBA | ... a Belgian returning some of the spores (5) |
| TOADSTOOL | The spore-bearing body of a fungus, in the form of a cap on a stalk (9) |
| UMBO | Central boss of a shield; or, the protuberance on the cap of a mushroom or toadstool (4) |
| RILL | Beer infused with ground ivy; a brook; a female ferret; a lamella of a mushroom; or, a wooded glen (4) |
| PILEUS | A word for a brimless Roman felt hat or liberty cap originally, later for the cap of a mushroom (6) |
| FAIRYRING | Short name of a mushroom whose Latin epithet, Marasmius oreades, refers to mountain nymphs; or, a circle formed by a number of said champignons, but popularly attributed to imagined folkish dancing pi |
| STIPE | In mycology, the stalk that supports the pileus (cap) of a mushroom or toadstool (5) |
| CEP | A beaut of a mushroom |
| GILL | Radiating plate on the underside of a mushroom (4) |
| STADDLE | Stone in the shape of a mushroom (7) |
| PELLICLE | Thin outer skin covering the cap (pileus) of a mushroom, sometimes gelatinous (8) |
| SPAWN | The eggs of fish or frogs - and the spores of the subjects of this week's Miscellany! (5) |
| SMURF | Cartoon dweller of a mushroom village |
| ASWELL | On top of a mushroom? |
| CAP | Top part of a mushroom |
| SPORE | Reproductive cell of a mushroom (5) |
| BEARDS | Chin puffs, five-o'clock shadows, imperials, vandykes etc; or, awns of barley, barbels of fishes or gills of oysters, reminiscent of said ziffs (6) |
| BRANCHIAL | Of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal (9) |
