| AWN | Bristly beard on a seed or grain (3) |
| KERNEL | The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone (6) |
| HILUM | Scar on a seed or spore created by detachment (5) |
| NUT | A seed or edible kernel with a tough shell, to which a formidable or figuratively hard-to-crack opponent, person or problem is likened (3) |
| DIB | Make a small hole, for a seed or seedling perhaps (3) |
| BUR | Rub back on a seed head (3) |
| PEA | In a pod, mushed, used to make soup or blown out of a toy shooter, it is a small spherical green seed or pulse whose name in question was once thought to be a plural's singular (3) |
| HOT | A movie about a beard on fire? Call the police! - see 8ac (3,4) |
| SUN | *"Full ___," on a seed package |
| CASE | From the French for "fall", an instance or happening that "befalls"; a chest, trunk or valise; the husk of a seed or cover of a wristwatch; a legal proceeding; or, an eccentric (4) |
| TOGA | From "hair of the head", word for a tuft of a seed or pineapple; a leafy crown of a palm; or, the nebulous envelope of the head of a "long-haired star" (4) |
| PIP | An apple seed; or, a Bath star (3) |
| MOW | To cut grass or grain |
| LEGUME | Word for a seed or pulse such as a borlotti bean, chickpea, peanut or Puy lentil; or, the plant from which each of the aforesaid derive (6) |
| AWNED | Having a beard on a farm |
| TOP | Word with seed or banana |
| ARIL | Botanical name for a seed or "jewel" of a pomegranate (4) |
| GERMINATION | The beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant (11) |
| HULL | Part of a seed or a ship |
| HUSK | Shell of a seed or a coconut (4) |
