| SYCAMORE | From the Greek meaning "fig-mulberry" and with samaras or "helicopters", a tree that shares its family with ackee, horse chestnut, lychee, maple and soapberry (8) |
| EBONISTS | Cabinetmakers who work with the black hardwood of a tree that shares its genus with the persimmon (8) |
| FICIFOLIA | Term meaning fig-leaved eg as the leaves of hollyhock Alcea ___ ... official I upset (9) |
| SPRUCE | Tree that shares its family with the cedar of Lebanon, larch, Douglas fir and Scots pine (6) |
| ASH | Tree with samaras |
| ELM | Tree with samaras |
| MAPLE | Plant with samaras |
| CHOPPER | Helicopter a housewife could handle? (7) |
| LELY | Peter ?, 17th-century painter whose works include Girl with a Parrot and Two Ladies of the Lake Fami |
| MILLS | Hayley ', actress who played the title role in 1960 fami film Pollyanna (5) |
| SUBORDER | Taxonomic category above fami ly (8) |
| KEYS | Samaras or "helicopters" of ash or elm; or, instruments for unlocking, loosening, tuning or winding (4) |
| ASHKEY | One of a bunch of Fraxinus samaras or "helicopters" that, in essence, are windblown unlockers for new trees (3-3) |
| ASHKEYS | Samaras or "helicopters" of trees in the genus Fraxinus (3-4) |
| ORAPE | orange; tree or large shrub in the mulberry and fig family with timber formerly used to make bows (5 |
| FIGS | Fruits of a tree in the family that includes mulberry and Osage orange, sometimes eaten dried as a healthy snack (4) |
| AIR | Invisible gaseous mixture through which radio or sound waves travel; a breeze or zephyr, such as that needed to disperse a samara; a melody; or, the "flight" of a skier mid jump (3) |
| SAMARA | From Latin for "elm seed", a word for a winged key fruit or "helicopter" of the ash, maple or sycamore (6) |
| STUMP | The part of a tree that remains in the ground after the tree is cut (5) |
| NURSE | Member of a healthcare profession pioneered by Florence Nightingale; a worker bee; or, a tree that protects a young plant (5) |
