| PINEAPPLES | Bromeliaceous fruits with crowns of leaves; an old name for the strobili of cedar, fir, larch and spruce; or, finials resembling such woody seed-producing structures (10) |
| LINED | Series of descendants with crown of David ruled (5) |
| EXITS | Leaves an old flame. It's finished (5) |
| ANANAS | French word for a pineapple; or, said bromeliaceous fruit's genus (6) |
| COPROSMA | Crown of leaves is edging for South Australian shrub |
| COMAL | Mark found in carbonaceous rock like a crown of leaves |
| TREE | Any one of the large arboreous woody plants with crowns forming a forest's canopy; the frame of a saddle; or, a foot-like device for preserving the shape of a shoe (4) |
| TREETOPS | Word, capturing the essence of the upper reaches of forests, for the canopy-forming crowns of aspens, birches, chestnuts, Douglas firs, elms and all other arboreal woody plants (8) |
| OAKLEAF | Any one of the photosynthesis organs of trees in the genus Quercus such as encina that were used for the crowns of ancient kings (3,4) |
| URAEUS | This Egyptian divine cobra is a flame-breathing asp that protects the sun god Ra by destroying his foes. It appears on the headdresses or crowns of many gods and goddesses of Egypt. What is its name? |
| DANTE | One of the so-called "Three Crowns of Florence," along with Petrarch and Boccaccio |
| WYCHELM | First uses of wood - yew, cedar, hickory, elder, larch and maple tree (4-3) |
| TANNER | Crowns of ___ plants may need the protection of a thick mulch of bark (6) |
| CONIFERS | With woody fruits or strobili formerly called pineapples, trees such as those in the genus Araucaria araucana, dubbed "monkey puzzles" by barrister Charles Austin during a planting ceremony in 1834 (8 |
| ALOTTOBEDESIRED | An unsatisfactory situation leaves an auction item to be longed for (1,3,2,2,7) |
| CANOPY | Zone in a forest formed by the crowns of trees; or, a part of a parachute (6) |
| ENAMEL | What is the hard, glossy substance that covers the crowns of teeth called? (6) |
| ACACIA | Spies appear after hiding odd bits of larch and oak tree (6) |
| FACADE | Veneer of larch and yew using alternate pieces (6) |
| ALDER | Hack back the withered larch and a riverside tree (5) |
