| BINES | Climbing, twining stems as of the hops |
| SCHLITZ | Brand with the old slogan "Just the kiss of the hops" |
| SHOPTALK | Hound swallowed most of the hops - did you hear that at work? (4,4) |
| CYME | In botany, an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem, while subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, as in African violet (saintpaulia) (4) |
| CORMS | Swollen bases of stems, as in the crocus and begonia (5) |
| BINE | Climbing, twining stem of the hop |
| CONE | Fruit of a pine tree or other conifer depicted in a stylised form in paisley or as a finial; a flower of the hop plant; or, a curled wafer for a scoop of ice cream (4) |
| BIND | A stem of the hop plant; a tie in music; the clay between layers of coal; or, a statutory constraint (4) |
| DARIN | 'Queen of the Hop' singer |
| TUBER | A fleshy, underground stem (as in the potato) or root (as in the dahlia) (5) |
| OAST | As to its adaptation, it's for drying the hops (4) |
| DIASPORA | Dispersion of a population from its homeland, as of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity of the 6th century BC (8) |
| SERENE | From the Latin for "clear", a word used to mean fair, pure or unclouded, as of the sky or the air; calm, peaceful and tranquil; or, as part of a royal title, honoured (6) |
| RACEME | Flower cluster on a single stem, as in the honey locust |
| IPA | Beer that's heavy on the hops: Abbr. |
| CHIASMA | Intersection or crossing-over, as of the optic nerves at the base of the brain (7) |
| ID | The inherited instinctive impulses of an individual as of the unconscious |
| TENDRIL | Twining stem of a plant (7) |
| ERRED | Read "stem" as "stern," e.g. |
| NOHITTER | Feat that, as of the start of 2018, has been achieved by every baseball team except the San Diego Padres |
