| RIBES | From the Latin for "bramble-bush", a genus of rosaceous plants that includes the blackberry, boysenberry, cloudberry/bakeapple, dewberry and raspberry (5) |
| RUBUS | From the Latin for "bramble-bush", a genus of rosaceous plants that includes the blackberry, boysenberry, cloudberry/bakeapple, dewberry and raspberry (5) |
| SPIRAEA | Genus of rosaceous plants with sprays of small white or pink flowers (7) |
| AVENS | An archdeacon's type of rosaceous plant |
| LOGANBERRIES | Trailing prickly hybrid rosaceous plants cultivated for their edible fruits (12) |
| THORNS | Bramble bush features |
| BRAMBLING | With a name similar to that of the blackberry bush or a variety of cooking apple, a chaffinch-like bird, known regionally as cock o' the north, furze chirper and tartan back (9) |
| FORBES | Leading figure of the Newlyn School who painted A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach, The Blackberry Pickers, The Harbour Window and The Fishermen's Expedition (6) |
| ACINUS | Any of the small drupes that make up the fruit of the blackberry, raspberry, etc. |
| VIOLA | Genus of plants that includes the pansy; or, an instrument in a family that includes cello and double bass (5) |
| ALMOND | Oval-shaped, nut-like, edible seed of a type of rosaceous tree (6) |
| CANE | Woody stem of a plant in the genus Rubus such as the blackberry, loganberry, raspberry or tayberry (4) |
| HELLEBORE | Common name of a genus of plants that includes the winter-flowering Christmas rose (9) |
| CUCURBIT | A member of a family of creeping flowering plants that includes the pumpkin, cucumber, squashes and gourds (8) |
| LILY | Common name of a family of plants that includes the snake's- head fritillary, or chess flower (4) |
| AJUGA | Genus of plants that includes the creeping carpet-forming wild flower known as a bugle (5) |
| MIMOSA | Genus of plants that includes the sensitive plant and shares its name with a champagne cocktail (6) |
| PEACH | From the Latin meaning "Persian apple", a rosaceous drupe resembling a fuzzy nectarine that is one of the fruits whose stone is ground to prepare persipan (5) |
| BLOSSOM | A flower or mass of flowers preceding the fruit of a rosaceous tree, such as the almond, apple, cherry, peach or plum; or, the state or season of such efflorescence (7) |
| COLEONEMA | Genus of the confetti bush ... a mole once spoilt (9) |
