| MALUS | Crab apple genus in informal usage (5) |
| IDIOM | Informal usage or vocabulary characterised by a specific group of people or locale (5) |
| SLANG | Informal usage |
| BETTHEFARM | In North American informal usage, to stake everything |
| JELLY | The crab apple variety '___ King', and the ___ bean plant (Sedum x rubrotinctum) have this wobble in common! (5) |
| YUCCA | Heads of Yale University cultivated crab apple plant (5) |
| LAURA | Compact, upright crab apple (5) |
| SCROG | Scots or Northern English dialect for a broken branch, bushy place, crab-apple, crooked bush, low tree, scrubby wood, stump or other shrivelled, stunted or withered thing (5) |
| TILIA | The lime tree genus - in tormentil I assume (5) |
| RUBIA | The madder genus in shrub I arranged (5) |
| SEDUM | The stonecrop genus - in refuse dump! (5) |
| MALVA | The mallow genus - in formal vase (5) |
| DRYAS | The mountain avens genus - in sundry assortments (5) |
| ELDER | Woodland tree or shrub with berries used for jam, country wine, pontack sauce and a kind of hedgerow ketchup with crab apples, blackberries and haws, genus Sambucus (5) |
| POMES | Crab apple and others |
| PUMAS | Members of the genus in Felidae that contains the cougar and jaguarundi (5) |
| BACCA | Regularly taken from branch, crab apple isn't this kind of fruit |
| MELIA | Tree genus in the mahogany family |
| TOONA | Genus in the mahogany family |
| RHINO | Greek head of reconstruction invests in informal currency (5) |
