| ELDERFLOWER | Delicate white blooms cooked and used to flavour gooseberry dishes, traditional cordials, jellies an |
| ROUX | Fat and flour mixture, cooked and used to make sauces (4) |
| HERBS | Forming part of a knot garden and used to flavour Galliano and Chartreuse, culinary and medicinal plants described in books by Nicholas Culpeper (5) |
| ALMOND | Nut-like kernel ground and used to flavour marzipan, amaretto or amaretti or the traditional Viennese Christmas biscuits vanillekipferi (6) |
| SHERRY | Fortified wine from Andalucia traditionally served in a copita or a schooner and used to flavour som |
| SPEARMINTOIL | Substance obtained from a herb and used to flavour gum (9,3) |
| LOVAGE | Used to flavour pea soups and alcoholic botanical cordials, a herb and heirloom plant whose name derives from a medieval word for parsley (6) |
| RHUBARB | Leaf-stalks cooked and used as if fruit. Nonsense (7) |
| COWPARSLEY | Also known as Queen Anne's lace, a delicate white flower of hedgerows and woodland edges with herb Robert, red campion and blossoming hawthorn (3,7) |
| POTHERB | Any of various plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning (3, |
| BABYSBREATH | Common name of a variety of gypsophila with delicate white flowers, used as a symbol of everlasting love (5,6) |
| LOVEINAMIST | Perennial plant of southern Europe with delicate white or blue flowers |
| CHRISTMAS | - rose, a snow and frost resilient species of hellebore with radiant white blooms in the colder months, often planted to brighten the winter garden (9) |
| GEE | 'Ginny ___ ' is a popular dwarf rhododendron with masses of small, pink and white blooms (3) |
| DAPHNE | The fragrant pink and white blooms of ___ odora brighten the winter garden (6) |
| UNIQUE | Fuchsia 'Lye's ___' has pretty coral and white blooms (6) |
| ANISE | Put sea in and you can use it to make cordials (5) |
| ELDERBERRIES | Fruit sometimes used for cordials and remedies, poisonous uncooked (12) |
| LARK | Forming a flock known as an exaltation and used to describe an earlyriser, a bird immortalised in an orchestral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams (4) |
| LACY | Like delicate white trim |
