| BLUEBELLS | English -; fragrant flowers of ancient woodlands forming violet carpets under shady canopies in spring, often with ferns, lilies of the valley and ramsons (9) |
| BLUEBELL | Any one of the protected cuckoo's boots, fairy flowers, witches' thimbles or wood hyacinths forming spectacular violet carpets in ancient woodlands in the spring (8) |
| TREES | Large woody plants with crowns forming canopies in forested areas (5) |
| LOTUS | Sacred flower of ancient Egypt (5) |
| IODINE | Element forming violet vapour |
| LIBERATE | One carpet, under a pound or free |
| OXLIPS | Rare pale-yellow primulas of ancient woodlands, adopted as Suffolk's county flowers in 2002 (6) |
| WADES | An area of ancient woodland in a stream valley within Winsford, ___ Clough contains a designated Site of Biological Importance, recognising the wide variety of wildlife there (5) |
| CHASE | Cranbome -; with a diverse landscape of ancient woodlands, chalk grassland and chalk river valleys, one of Dorset's two AONBs (5) |
| COPPICE | Iron Age fort called Caesar's Camp is located in this area of ancient woodland in South Yorkshire, S |
| EPPING | --- Forest, area of ancient woodland in Southern England, a former royal hunting ground (6) |
| LILAC | A pale violet or lavender colour evocative of a fragrant flower of the same name in the olive family (5) |
| STOCKS | Keeps a supply of fragrant flowers of Matthiola genus? (6) |
| WILDFLOWERS | Cow parsley, foxgloves, dog violets, lords and ladies, red campions ... native or naturalised plants of ancient woodlands, meadows, grasslands or old gardens (4,7) |
| DEAN | Forest of -; ancient woodland between the Wye Valley and Severn Vale (4) |
| MERCURY | Dog's -; poisonous herbaceous perennial which is one of the first plants to emerge in ancient woodlands in the spring (7) |
| ASPS | Ancient woodlands' trembling poplars; Egyptian jugglers' snakes, whose colouration/coldness influenced the name of jellied dishes; or, cousins of daces, minnows and related fishes (4) |
| ANEMONES | Wood -; "lady's nightcaps" or windflowers blooming in ancient woodlands (8) |
| CROWNS | Circlets or wreaths for heads, hence canopies of trees, coverings of teeth, crests of birds/hills, rosettes of pineapples, surroyals of stags, tops of bottles or other capping things (6) |
| ROSES | Fragrant flowers of a thorny bush |
