| PALMS | Coconut or date trees with leaves symbolising victory; or, sailmakers' leather "thimbles" (5) |
| PALM | Acai berry-, coconut- or date-yielding tree or a branch of such as a symbol of victory; or, a sailmaker's handguard (4) |
| FIGS | Pear-shaped "fruits" or syconia of trees in the mulberry family, with leaves symbolising modesty in art; dialect word for segments of oranges; or, lady finger bananas (4) |
| LAUREL | Aromatic evergreen shrub used to make wreaths symbolising victory (6) |
| OAK | Tree growing as part of a quercetum with leaves symbolising the charity described in 14 Across (3) |
| ASPEN | Northern Hemisphere tree with leaves that quiver in the wind (5) |
| SNARK | Fictional creature hunted with thimbles, care, forks and hope in an 1876 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll (5) |
| PALMA | Date-tree near a resort in the Balearics (5) |
| COPRA | From a coconut or in a cap? (5) |
| PALMI | Prefix re date trees |
| TRUMP | From an alteration of a word for a victory or a win, a playing card of the suit chosen to rank above the others; hence, an excellent person or first-rate fellow (5) |
| ELDER | Tree with leaves joiner employed in shipbuilding? |
| DETER | Prevent date tree getting chopped (5) |
| VSIGN | Indication of victory or of contempt given in a handy way! (1-4) |
| ALAMO | Landmark that offers visitors a "Victory or Death" audio tour |
| SETSA | Words with course or date |
| STAMP | Follower of rubber or date |
| BAY | Tree with leaves used in cookery or clipped into a ball shape; or, a brown horse with black points (3) |
| AWL | A bodkin- or gimlet-like pointed instrument used by a binder, cobbler, leather-crafter, saddler, sailmaker, tailor, weaver or woodworker to pierce, scratch, scribe or stitch (3) |
| NEEDLES | Items found in sewing kits or baskets with pins, assorted threads, thimbles, remnants, pinking shears, scissors... (7) |
