| SHERMAN | General ___ largest known living single-stem tree on Earth located in the Sequoia National Park word craze |
| COLOSSALSQUID | The largest known living invertebrate in the world (8,5) |
| WHIP | Riding crop-like device; a central shaft of a windmill's sail; or, a young single-stem tree (4) |
| REDWOODS | Name commonly given to giant conifers in the sequoia genus (8) |
| THEME | ___ park (amusement park) word craze |
| VISALIA | City near Sequoia national Park |
| TREE | Sequoia National Park sight |
| ERIS | Named after the Greek goddess of discord and strife, one of the largest known dwarf planets in the solar system (4) |
| RACEME | Flower cluster on a single stem, as in the honey locust |
| PLUTO | The second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, classified as a planet until 2006 (5) |
| OLYMPUSMONS | Largest known volcano in the solar system, near the Tharsis region of equatorial Mars (7,4) |
| MANDRILL | The largest known species of monkey - they are found in the rainforests of West Africa |
| HAGFISH | The only known living animal that has a skull but no vertebral column, what is also known as a slime eel? (7) |
| STANDARDROSE | The quality went up for bush on a single stem (8,4) |
| SHRUB | A woody plant smaller than a tree and lacking a single stem (5) |
| INCA | The largest known empire in the pre-Columbian Americas (4) |
| CERES | The largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt |
| MARS | Home to the largest known volcano in the solar system |
| WHALESHARK | The largest known extant fish in the sea (5,5) |
| BLUEWHALE | Earth's largest known animal to have ever existed which still swims today and feeds on krill: 2 wds. |
