| CRESCERE | Cresco, "to grow", crevi, cretum (8) |
| AUXI | I grew (trans. common, intrans. less so): amplicavi, crevi |
| CREVI | Cresco, crescere, ____, cretum: I was born, grew, and waxed |
| CREOR | I am born: nascor, cresco |
| HOTHOUSE | Place for women to show, sweaters to glow, or plants to grow? (8) |
| ESPALIER | Trellis to train plants to grow flat (8) |
| NITROGEN | The first of the nurserymen to get iron mixture - it helps the plants to grow (8) |
| ENLARGES | Left garden, at the end, to grow up to a greater extent (8) |
| VEGETATE | To grow in the manner of plants, is to do what (8) |
| COALESCE | Fuse or cause to grow together (8) |
| SNOWBALL | It's projected to grow ever more quickly (8) |
| HELOTAGE | Male fate, to grow old in serfdom (8) |
| GARDENIA | Plant needs a place to grow it, I answer (8) |
| ESCALATE | To grow rapidly, Alec eats freely (8) |
| POTBOUND | Weed, before spring, having no room to grow (8) |
| RINGWORM | Parasite to grow in rumpus room (8) |
| INCREASE | Where batter is safe to grow (8) |
| MUSHROOM | Fungus has to grow rapidly (8) |
| DECREASE | Seen to grow less in wide creases (8) |
| PRUNELLA | Cut back everything to grow a medicinal plant (8) |
