| GULFWAR | Bush the elder's attempt at Iraq (4,3) |
| BARR | William ___, attorney general under Bush the elder |
| DANACARVEY | Imitator of Bush the elder on "S.N.L." |
| GEORGEW | President Bush the younger (6,1) |
| SCRIBES | With the Elders, the accusers |
| SUSANNA | ___ and the Elders, famous painting (7) |
| APELLES | Described in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, ancient Greek painter said to have been court artist to Alexander the Great (7) |
| PALETTE | Depicted in Frans van Mieris the Elder's Pictura (An Allegory of Painting), an artist's board for mixing colours (7) |
| DHLAWRENCE | Author of "The Boy in the Bush," "The Plumed Serpent," and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| ALLAROUND | "___ the mulberry bush, the monkey..." |
| HEDGED | Beat about the bush, ... the question |
| RIBES | From Latin for "bramble-bush", the genus or botanical appellation of the rosaceous canefruits including black, boysen, cloud, dew, logan, marion, rasp, tay and wine berries (5) |
| ELDERSTATESMAN | Bush, the American and former president? (5,9) |
| MULBERRY | Bush the centre of attention in nursery circles? |
| SHRUB | Bush the damaged brush (5) |
| HOLLY | Bush, the rock 'n' roll pioneer? (5) |
| INSIDE | Debut album of Kate Bush, The Kick ------ (6) |
| LAVENDER | Bush the French sell with hesitation (8) |
| THERAVADA | The southern school of Buddhism, literally "the teaching of the elders" |
| LAGAN | My ____ Love, Irish folk song recorded by Kate Bush, The Corrs and Charlotte Church (5) |
