| ASHKEY | Any one of a fascicle of fraxinum samaras growing in clusters, imagined to resemble bunches of lock-openers (3-3) |
| KEYS | Legends of maps; winged samaras growing in bunches reminiscent of their eponymous locking devices; ivories of pianos; or, spanners (4) |
| NERVE | A fascicle of axons synonymous with audacity, bravery or courage (5) |
| HEFT | Word whose various meanings include an unfenced area of grazing for a flock of sheep accustomed to shepherding themselves; bulk/weight, thus influence; a bundle of fastened sheets of paper; or, a fasc |
| ENOKI | Edible Japanese mushroom with a long thin stem and small cap, growing in clusters; Flammulina velutipes (5) |
| ACERVATE | Growing in clusters |
| BUNCH | Fascicle |
| COLLECTION | Fascicle |
| STARLING | A protective piling acting as a breakwater around a bridge pier; or, a gregarious iridescent murmuration- forming bird that derives its name from the "etoile" it is imagined to resemble when in flight |
| COPRA | Dried kernel of a large coir-covered seed with three marks imagined to resemble a grotesque face (5) |
| NILEBLUE | Teal-like colour or a histological stain, imagined to resemble that of the colossal African river that flows to the Mediterranean main (4,4) |
| LAVALAMP | Mathmos founder's invention of a psychedelic light with swirling liquid imagined to resemble magma (4,4) |
| TULIP | A liliaceous spring-blooming flower imagined to resemble a turban (5) |
| TABBY | A cat named for its brindled coat imagined to resemble striped Baghdadi silk taffeta; any female moggy; or, an interfering old gossip (5) |
| CUCKOOPINT | Wild arum with spathes and spadices imagined to resemble the anatomy of lords and ladies (6,4) |
| KINGCUP | Marsh marigold with butter-yellow flowers imagined to resemble a Rex's golden goblet (7) |
| PENNIFORM | Feather-shaped, as of muscles whose fibres (fascicles) are attached to either side of a central tendon (9) |
| ASTER | Latin or common name of Michaelmas-daisies or related flowers characterised by radiated blooms imagined to resemble the celestial or heavenly bodies forming galaxies (5) |
| BEEHIVES | Apiarian honey-making factories, teeming busily with melliferous hymenopterans, thus symbolic of bustling activity or buzzing places; or, dome-shaped hairstyles, imagined to resemble traditional woven |
| SEALACE | Brown algae or kelp with very long cord-like fronds, imagined to resemble mermaids' tresses (3,4) |
