| 20 answers for: Genus of chives, garlic, leeks, onions, ramsons an... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| ALLIUM | Genus of chives, garlic, leeks, onions, ramsons and shallots (6) |
| ONIONS | Bulb vegetables whose alliaceous relatives include chives, garlic, leeks and shallots (6) |
| ONION | Bulb vegetable or plant in a family that includes chives, garlic, leeks and shallots, genus Allium (5) |
| RAMPS | Word for threatening rearing-ups of animals; inclines/slopes; swindles; stunts; sleeping policemen; tomboys; catwalks; or, wild leeks/onions (5) |
| WHITE | Colour of the flowers of lily of the valley, Solomon's seal, snowdrops, ramsons and wood sorrel (5) |
| WOODLAND | Natural habitat also called boscage, whose springtime flora in ancient examples often includes bluebells, lily of the valley, primroses, oxlips, ramsons and violets (8) |
| SPRING | Season of "lencten" characterised by lengthening of the days and vernal awakening, blossoming, budding and bursting forth of nature's bounty, including artichokes, garlicky ramsons, Jersey royals, tar |
| ONIONY | Like the flavor of chives |
| TRIPES | Set off starters of escargots and shallots with stomach linings (6) |
| GREENS | Leafy vegetables such as kale or spinach with wild or foraged varieties including winter cress, wood sorrel, sea purslane, dandelion, ramsons, nettle, chickweed and salad burnet (6) |
| SCAPES | Related to "sceptres", word for shafts, stalks or stems of various things, including amaryllises, chives, columns, feathers, garlic plants, hostas, tulips and weevils' antennae (6) |
| GARLIC | Wild -; common name for ramsons, a plant with an unmistakable scent growing abundantly in shaded, damp woodlands from April onwards (6) |
| 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) |
| ALLIUMS | Latin-derived word for garlic plants, onions and their oniony relatives, such as chives, leeks and shallots (7) |
| SCHEME | Last of all, takes garlic with chive from vegetable plot |
| CARRAGEENS | Cook arranges case of chive and seaweed |
| ONIONRING | Snack for association of chive farmers? (5,4) |
| CERO | Fish roe crackers topped with piece of chive |
| SCAPE | The cry of a snipe when flushed; the snipe itself; an old word for a getaway, slip or transgression; a suffix indicating a scene, as in land, moon or sea; or, the leafless flower stem of the amaryllis |
| WILDFLOWERS | Plants growing naturally and forming an intrinsic part of the ecosystem of woodlands, meadows and country lanes such as bluebells, cowslips, ramsons, wood anemones or violets (4,7) |
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