| CHERVIL | Feathery flat-leaf parsley-like herb served with courgettes, peas/mushrooms with cream, roasted fennel or celeriac (7) |
| PEAS | Kitchen-garden pod vegetables seasonal in the summer with courgettes, berries, broad beans, new potatoes, asparagus etc (4) |
| BROAD | - beans; legumes seasonal in British gardens in the summer months at the same time as asparagus, courgettes, peas, spinach and strawberries (5) |
| DILL | Herb served with salmon |
| MINT | Herb served with lamb (4) |
| CORIANDER | Parsley-like herb using as seasoning (9) |
| LOVAGE | Parsley-like herb rarely available in shops (6) |
| CHIVES | Smallest member of the onion family; a culinary herb served snipped with scissors in creamy sauces, |
| SAUSAGESANDMASH | Outside America, herb served at first with mother's hot food |
| SPECIAL | Served up mushrooms with one half of veal for dish of the day (7) |
| NAANBREAD | In Indian cookery, a slightly leavened bread in a large, flat, leaf shape (4,5) |
| NAN | Slightly leavened bread in a large flat leaf shape in Indian cookery (3) |
| NAAN | Slightly leavened Indian bread in a large flat leaf shape (4) |
| EUROPEAN | Swede, perhaps, with no herb served up, eating legume (8) |
| BASIL | "Kingly, royal" herb served in a caprese salad to represent the green part of Italy's tricolour flag (5) |
| SPECIALISTS | Professionals served up first-rate mushrooms with rolls (11) |
| MUIR | Heads of mushrooms with firm centres for Edwin the 14Ac (4) |
| ANISE | Parsley-like plant with liquor ice flavoured seeds (5) |
| BLADE | A flat leaf of grass (5) |
| HOGWEED | Tall, cow-parsley like plant - its invasive giant form is toxic (7) |
