| HAIRY | Common name for Cardamine hirsuta, an annual or biennial member of the mustard family, and which is an edible if bitter herb (5,11) |
| BITTERCRESS | Common name for Cardamine hirsuta, an annual or biennial member of the mustard family, and which is an edible if bitter herb (5,11) |
| DODO | A bird that was a flightless member of the pigeon family and which is now extinct |
| SMOCK | Cuckoo flower or lady's - - - - -, country names for Cardamine pratensis (5) |
| RADISH | The pungent-tasting root of a member of the mustard family, eaten raw in salads (6) |
| ARUGULA | Member of the mustard family, fun to say out loud |
| CAULIFLOWER | Member of the mustard family |
| CRESS | Member of the mustard family |
| PURSE | Plant of the mustard family with heart-shaped seed pods and small white flowers, a common weed it can be seen in many parts of the world including by the roadsides of Mallorca (9,5) |
| SHEPHERDS | Plant of the mustard family with heart-shaped seed pods and small white flowers, a common weed it can be seen in many parts of the world including by the roadsides of Mallorca (9,5) |
| WHEAT | Annual or biennial grass of the genus Triticum (5) |
| LUPIN | Upright perennial or biennial of which 'Band of Nobles' is a popular cultivar (5) |
| OILSEED | - rape, plant of the mustard family which has bright yellow flowers (7) |
| BRASSICA | Plant genus of the mustard family that includes cabbage, broccoli, swede etc. (8) |
| PHEROMONES | Special scent messages that are released from the glands on an ant's body and which is used for communicating with the colony |
| RICHMAN | Tommy with a song that spent 22 weeks at the top of the hip-hop charts this year, and which is expected to be nominated for at least one Grammy next month |
| YANGTZE | Asian river whose source is in the Tanggula Mountains, and which is spanned by the Three Gorges Dam (7) |
| PLANT | Annual or biennial, e.g. |
| SEAKALE | Fleshy plant of the mustard family |
| COLE | Plant of the mustard family |
