| MUSHROOMS | Field, wood, chestnut, morel, penny bun, chanterelle... fruiting bodies or fungi sometimes forming fairy rings and studied in mycology (9) |
| PLURAL | "Foci" or "fungi" |
| MACOTAS | Howler monkey genus; or, fungi collectively (7) |
| EARTHBALL | Any of some tuberous, subterranean fruiting bodies of fungi (5-4) |
| TRUFFLES | Fruiting bodies of a subterranean fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus tuber (8) |
| SONGS | Vocal compositions sometimes forming cycles; trifling amounts; or, melodies of birds or whales (5) |
| INITIAL | The first letter of a word or a person's name, sometimes forming an acronym or a monogram |
| MUSHROOM | Chanterelle or morel, eg (8) |
| AECIA | Rust fungus fruiting bodies |
| FRAMES | Word for the structures or skeletons of human bodies; or, the rigid surrounds of doors, lenses, paintings or windowpanes (6) |
| TRAMPS | Unbending borders for bifocals, beautiful brushworks or broideries; skeletons of bikes, bodies or buildings; triangles for billiard balls; or, structures on which bees build honeycombs (6) |
| BOWS | Foreparts of ships; fiddlesticks; lavallieres; or, bends of bodies or bobs of heads accompanied by scrapes (4) |
| BOLETUS | Genus to which the caps or penny bun mushroom belongs |
| CEP | Edible mushroom also known as a porcino or penny bun |
| COPPER | Used to make bronze alloys, penny coins, free-standing baths, pots, pans, Moscow mule mugs ... metal sometimes forming a patina known as verdigris (6) |
| ECRU | Unbleached linen colour sometimes forming part of a neutrals palette on a paint swatch (4) |
| GIROLLE | A chanterelle "cup" mushroom; or, a device for curling Tete de Moine "monk's head" cheese (7) |
| LUTES | Chordophones with pearshaped bodies; or, ring-shaped rubber seals for storage jars (5) |
| THESEVENCS | *Septet of wet bodies ... or of letters replacing sounds in the starred clues' answers |
| BOLETE | A "penny bun" or similar mushroom |
