| ONIONS | Bulb vegetables whose alliaceous relatives include chives, garlic and shallots (6) |
| ALLIUM | Genus of plants which includes the chives, garlic and leek (6) |
| ONION | Bulb vegetable or plant in a family that includes chives, garlic, leeks and shallots, genus Allium (5) |
| SISKIN | Yellowish-green-and-black aberdevine whose avian relatives include brambling, crossbill, goldfinch, linnet, redpoll, serin and twite (6) |
| RHINOS | Informal word for horn-nosed perissodactyls whose closest relatives include horses and tapirs (6) |
| TRIPES | Set off starters of escargots and shallots with stomach linings (6) |
| GARLIC | Edible alliaceous bulb whose name, from "spear-leek", alludes to its apparently spearhead-like cloves (6) |
| DAHLIA | Garden relatives include the sunflower, daisy, etc |
| FENNEL | Salad vegetable whose seeds are an anise-flavoured 2 (6) |
| DAIKON | Vegetable whose name is Japanese for "big root" |
| RADISH | Vegetable whose name ultimately derives from the Latin for “root” |
| ALLIUMS | Latin-derived word for garlic plants, onions and their oniony relatives, such as chives, leeks and shallots (7) |
| POPPY | Cornfield flower and symbol of remembrance whose relatives include bleeding heart, Dutchman's breeches, earth smoke, golden eardrops and scrambled eggs (5) |
| YAMS | Vegetables whose skins may be cooked and eaten separately |
| CROW | Any one of the con/ids or "hoodies" forming flocks known collectively as a storytelling whose relatives include the rook, raven, jackdaw, jay and magpie (4) |
| SABLE | Marten whose relatives include ferret, otter, stoat and weasel; its luxuriant dark-brown fur; an artist's paintbrush made from said hair; or, the black tincture in heraldry (5) |
| HEATH | Sharing its name with an ericaceous moorland habitat, a buff-orange brush-footed butterfly whose satyrid "brown" relatives include the gatekeeper, grayling, marbled-white, ringlet and speckled wood (5 |
| HIPPO | Land animal whose closest living relatives include whales |
| REEDPIPE | A simple wind instrument whose parts include a boot and shallot (4,4) |
| BEETS | Vegetables whose genus shares its name with a Greek letter |
