| MOCKORANGE | Common name for Philadelphus shrub (4,6) |
| ORANGE | Common name for Philadelphus shrub is mock ___ (6) |
| MOCK | - - - - orange, name commonly given to the fragrant shrub, philadelphus (4) |
| ETOILE | French word for 'star' given to mock orange philadelphus 'Belle - - - - - -' (6) |
| INNOCENCE | A white Philadelphus with variegated foliage - 'Naivety'? (9) |
| SYRINGA | Mock orange of the genus Philadelphus (7) |
| BLUEDRAGON | Common name for a colourful sea-slug which, though common in the Atlantic Ocean, was spotted for the first time in centuries in the waters around Mallorca earlier this year (4-6) |
| SANDMYRTLE | Common name for Kalmia buxifolia, a flowering shrub species of the heather family (4,6) |
| SIDEWINDER | Common name for the horned rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) of North American deserts, noted for its S-shaped locomotion (10) |
| BUSHLAWYER | Common name for NZ climbing blackberry plant (4,6) |
| BELLRINGER | Common name for a campanologist (4,6) |
| TURKEYTROT | Common name for Thanksgiving Day charity runs |
| BLACKSMITH | Sombre, common name for an artisan |
| BAKINGSODA | Common name for sodium bicarbonate (6,4) |
| BEEKEEPERS | The common name for apiarists or apiculturists (10) |
| PURPLELOCO | Common name for the milkvetch Astragalus agrestis |
| STITCHWORT | Common name for plants of the stellaria genus (11) |
| LITTLEBEAR | Common name for the constellation Ursa Minor (6, 4) |
| POTATOTREE | Common name for Solanum erianthum, a species of nightshade |
| CRANESBILL | Common name for any plant in Geranium genus (10) |
