| AMIA | Genus of the bowfin |
| GAR | Relative of a bowfin |
| CIRCUS | Show performed in a big top; Roman version of the hippodrome; a ring of houses such as that in Bath; or, the genus of the harriers (6) |
| FREESIA | Plant of the iris family belonging to the genus of the same name (7) |
| APIS | Egyptian god in the form of a bull; or, the genus of the honeybee (4) |
| PRUNELLA | First name of the actress who played Sybil in Fawlty Towers; or, the genus of the plant selfheal (8) |
| AGAPANTHUS | From Greek meaning "love flower", the genus of the lily of the Nile (10) |
| BELLIS | From the Latin meaning "beautiful, pretty", the genus of the flower whose common name "daisy" is thought to derive from the Old English for "day's eye" (6) |
| SEPIA | The genus of the cuttlefish; said cephalopod's defensive ink which is traditionally employed for drawing, painting or writing; or, the fine brown colour of this (5) |
| PORTULACA | Succulent herb of the purslane genus of the same name (9) |
| GARDENIA | White-flowered shrub or tree of the genus of the same name (8) |
| OPUNTIA | Plant of the prickly-pear genus of the cactus family (7) |
| APUS | Genus of the swifts; or, the Bird of Paradise constellation (4) |
| INDOCALAMUS | Genus of the so-called 'large-leaved bamboo' which, arguably, has the largest leaves of any bamboo in cultivation (11) |
| IBERIS | Plant of Eurasian genus of the same name including the garden candytuft (6) |
| ANSER | Bird genus of the family Anatidae to which all of the grey geese belong (5) |
| NARCISSI | Plants of the daffodil genus of the amaryllis family (8) |
| OXALIS | Plant of the wood sorrel genus of the same name (6) |
| NIGELLA | Genus of the devil-in-a-bush or love-in-a-mist that shares its family with the buttercup, granny's bonnet, larkspur and queen of poisons (7) |
| STELLARIA | The chickweed genus of the pink family (9) |
