| OXALIS | Genus or Latin name of wood sorrel (6) |
| CLAIRE | Alberta: Name of Wood Buffalo National Park's large Lake |
| HYDRANGEA | Genus or Latin name of a garden shrub with pink, white or blue flowers known for their ability to ch |
| WOODSIA | Genus or Latin name of the cliff fern - alpine, northern, rusty or smooth (7) |
| DIANTHUS | Symbolising boldness and meaning "flower of the gods", the genus or Latin name of spicy-clove-scented carnations, pinks and sweet william (8) |
| ROSA | Italian word for pink; or the genus or Latin name of the flowers that were bred by David Austin (4) |
| ERICA | Genus or Latin name of heather (5) |
| UNIO | A genus or Latin name, thought to derive from "one" or "solitaire", in reference to a diamond set by itself, of a freshwater pearl mussel (4) |
| HEATHS | Plants of the erica genus or the moorlands they sometimes cover (6) |
| CASTOR | A flour dredger-like pepperette or sugar shaker with a perforated top; a sextuple star system that is Pollux's less-bright twin in Gemini; a beaver, its genus or a hat from its fur; or, a small swivel |
| 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) |
| APEXAM | Music Theory or Latin, e.g. |
| ARILS | Seed coverings of wood sorrel (Oxalis) plants - sort of lairs (5) |
| OCA | Edible tuber, cousin of wood sorrel |
| ULYSSES | Roman or Latin name for Odysseus (7) |
| RIBES | From Latin for "bramble-bush", the genus or botanical appellation of the rosaceous canefruits including black, boysen, cloud, dew, logan, marion, rasp, tay and wine berries (5) |
| BOA | Snake genus, or one of its members |
| VESPA | Hornet genus, or type of motor scooter (5) |
| BUGLE | Plant of the ajuga genus, or a musical instrument (5) |
| MARGUERITE | From Greek or Latin for "pearl", the French name for a white-rayed wild flower of field margins, grassland, meadows and verges, also called an ox-eye daisy or moonpenny (10) |
