| EPERGNES | French word for ornamental centrepieces with branching holders for flowers, fruit and sweetmeats (8) |
| DOLLY | Word ranging in meaning from a child's moppet or poupee with which to play, to an offering of flowers, fruit and sweetmeats, presented on a tray (5) |
| POTS | Ceramic holders for flowers |
| EPERGNE | An ornamental centrepiece with branching holders for a selection of fruits, nuts and sweetmeats, whose name, from "economy, saving", refers to the space saved by sharing said frippery among guests aro |
| CARTOUCHES | Skilful method to enter words for ornamental scrolls (10) |
| VASE | Glass or ceramic holder for flowers |
| TRAILMIX | A hiker or rambler's traditionally home-made gorp or scroggin of assorted dried fruits, nuts, seeds and sweetmeats eaten as a calorific snack while tramping the abatures, footpaths, lanes, riverwalks |
| LEONARDO | A forename of mathematician Fibonacci, who is noted for his number sequence reflected in spiral patterns observed in flowers, fruits, hurricanes, pine cones, seed heads and shells (8) |
| CRINOIDS | Primitive echinoderms with branching arms (8) |
| REINDEER | Lapland native with branching antlers |
| CONFETTI | Paper sweetmeats to infect for a change (8) |
| HALAVAHS | Sweetmeats containing sesame seeds, honey, nuts and saffron (8) |
| TRUFFLES | Rich sweetmeats; fungi (8) |
| CARAMELS | Clams are served up as 'sweetmeats' (8) |
| PASTRIES | Father's attempts to produce sweetmeats (8) |
| TRUG | Sussex -; oblong basket of coppiced sweet chestnut and willow for carrying garden flowers, fruit and vegetables (4) |
| ICING | Sugary frosting for decorating and enhancing pastries and sweetmeats, such as the variety designated "royal" following its employment on the large cake made for Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albe |
| GARDEN | A piece of ground for growing flowers, fruit and vegetables (6) |
| CORNUCOPIA | What symbol of plenty consists of a goat's horn overflowing with flowers, fruit, and vegetables? (10) |
| ALLOTMENT | Word for an act of apportionment; the portion granted; a parcel of a field historically assigned to a tenant cottager to labour for him/herself; or, today, a plot rented to grow one's own flowers, fru |
