| OLDMANSBEARD | Any of various plants having a white feathery appearance, such as traveller's joy or Spanish moss |
| SCANDENT | Of plants, having a climbing habit (8) |
| TAMARISK | Small tree with tiny, scale-like leaves giving it a feathery appearance (8) |
| RITAWEBB | English character actress best known for her TV comedy appearances, such as in The Benny Hill Show and Spike Milligan's Q series |
| MAN | Clematis vitalba, traveller's joy or old - - -'s beard (3) |
| CLIMBERS | Vines such as traveller's joy, ivy or morning glory; mountaineers; or, hill cyclists, also called grimpeurs (8) |
| CLEMATIS | Plant such as traveller's joy (8) |
| POTHERB | Any of various plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning (3, |
| LARKSPUR | Any of various plants with spikes of blue, pink or white flowers (8) |
| CRUCIFER | Any of various plants of the cabbage family with four petals arranged in a cross (8) |
| PRIMULA | Any of various plants with white, yellow, pink or purple funnel-shaped flowers with five spreading petals (7) |
| CRINUM | Any of various plants of the Amaryllis family, characterised by luxuriant clusters of lily-like flowers (6) |
| VINE | Any of various plants with long, flexible stems that creep along the ground or climb by clinging to a support (4) |
| MELON | Fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family. (5) |
| SPICE | Historically traded on the Silk Road, any of various plant- or vegetable-based ingredients - chilli, cinnamon, cloves, coriander or cumin to name a few (5) |
| BLIGHT | Any of various plant diseases characterised by withering or shrivelling without rotting, typically caused by fungi or bacteria (6) |
| YUCCA | Genus of evergreen plants, having rosettes of long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large head of showy white blossoms (5) |
| ARALIA | Any of various plants of the genus Aralia. |
| ALTHEA | Any of various plants of the genus Althaea. |
| GOURD | Hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants (5) |
