| HERBES | French word for culinary plants such as those used to make bouquet garnis or "fines" mixtures of chopped chervil, chives, parsley and tarragon (6) |
| MUSLIN | Used to make bags for bouquet garnis or mulling spices, cotton cloth in which Christmas puddings can be wrapped or steamed (6) |
| VEGETABLE | Any culinary plant, such as broccoli (9) |
| FLORISTS | They make bouquets by hand, draping large gold heart in roses (8) |
| FENNEL | Think about names for culinary plant (6) |
| THYME | The season, one hears, for culinary plant (5) |
| ISSUE | In English law, the profits arising from lands or tenements, amercements, or fines |
| LEVIES | Taxes or fines (6) |
| SEEDS | Embryonic plants such as those used in Gregor Mendel's experiments that formed the basis of modern genetics or those preserved at Wakehurst Place (5) |
| PAWNS | From the Latin for "foot soldiers", the most numerous pieces in a game of chess, such as those used in an attack move or formation named after grandmaster Marmaduke Wyvill of Constable Burton Hall (5) |
| MARTELLO | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| TOWER | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| MANHOLES | Openings to sewers such as those used by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| HIEROGLYPHS | Characters used in pictorial writing such as those used in ancient Egypt (11) |
| SAVORY | Summer -; grown as a companion to broad beans, one of the culinary plants used for herbes de Provence (6) |
| HUSKY | One of those used to a bit of pull way up North is hoarse saying it (5) |
| BAY | Evergreen with aromatic leaves used in bouquet garnis and formerly to make triumphal crowns; a cove; a recess in a wall; a brown horse with black points; or, a hound's howl (3) |
| HERBS | Rosemary, sage, mint, thyme, lemon verbena ... aromatic plants used for bouquet garnis, tisanes, flavouring Galliano and almost all foods (5) |
| CGI | Computer graphics such as those used in films (1,1,1) |
| BULB | Rounded underground storage organ of plants such as those in the genera Allium and Lilium (4) |
