| SUZHOU | City in Jiangsu, China on the Grand Canal that is noted for its gardens (6) |
| NANTONG | A city in E China, in Jiangsu province, on the Yangtze estuary |
| STOURHEAD | Palladian-style house in Wiltshire, famed for its gardens |
| ICI | Imperial Chemical Industries - known by gardeners for its garden chemical products in the latter part of the last century (1,1,1) |
| ANALGESIA | Not feeling pain in part of alimentary canal that is gas-generated (9) |
| NANKEEN | Pale yellow cloth originally made in China's Jiangsu province (7) |
| TAI | Lake bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang |
| COCHIN | Chicken originally bred in China that is noted for its excessive plumage (6) |
| GRASSE | Town on the French Riviera that is noted for its perfume industry (6) |
| FOREST | Region of woodland and heath in SW Hampshire, England that is noted for its ponies (3,6) |
| SINTRA | Resort town in Portugal near Lisbon that is noted for its palaces and castles (6) |
| SPIDER | ____ plant, indoor one called Chlorophytum that is noted for its air purifying properties (6) |
| WEIHAI | Port in Shandong, NE China, on the Yellow Sea (6) |
| YUNNAN | Province of China on the border with Vietnam, Laos, and Burma (Myanmar) (6) |
| EASTER | --- Island in the Pacific is noted for its gigantic stone figures (6) |
| BEAVER | Which amphibious rodent is noted for its ingenuity in damming streams (6) |
| LOIRET | French departement whose town Pithiviers is noted for its eponymous frangipane pies (6) |
| SATURN | Which planet is noted for its rings (6) |
| NIMES | French city in the Occitanie region that is noted for its Roman remains (5) |
| HOWLER | This tropical American monkey is noted for its roaring cries. |
