| FOXGLOVES | Growing near dens of vixens and their male counterparts and loved by fairies according to folklore, one of the most poisonous plants in our flora, Digitalis (9) |
| CLAY | Short story between Counterparts and A Painful Case in Dubliners by James Joyce |
| MEMSAHIBS | Anglo Indian females have 50% memory more than their male counterparts (9) |
| BUCKS | Does find their male counterparts in England (5) |
| OXEN | Vixen and Hen take their tops off, pulling team (4) |
| CAMPFGIRLS | Early Boy Scouts counterpart (and literally, delay) |
| BRO | Sis' counterpart, and sometime rival |
| RYAN | Jenny ___, Chaser whose nicknames include The Vixen and Bolton Brainiac (4) |
| APRIL | Thought to be from "to open", in allusion to the opening of buds and blossoms in spring, name of the fourth month and one whose "showers may bring flowers", according to folklore (5) |
| ELFCUPS | Scarlet mushrooms or "fairies' baths" found in moss and leaf litter, used by sprites to drink morning dew, according to folklore (3,4) |
| HILARY | - of Poitiers; saint whose feast day falls on January 13, the coldest day of the year according to folklore (6) |
| STORK | According to folklore, what kind of bird was said to deliver babies? (5) |
| MORNING | Time of day celebrated in aubades and loved by people nicknamed "larks" (7) |
| BLOOMSBURY | An area of London associated with a group of artists, intellectuals and writers who, according to Dorothy Parker, "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles" (10) |
| BROWNIE | According to folklore, what name was given to little brown goblins, especially those who helped with the housework; the name was also used for the junior division of the Girl Guides? (7) |
| GORSE | From "stand on end, bristle", "barley" and "hedgehog", the prickly evergreen furze or whin that, according to folklore, when in bloom with golden papilionaceous flowers, kissing is said to be in seaso |
| MANDRAKES | Plants whose roots, according to folklore, scream when dug up, and have magical powers (9) |
| LORDS | "Bread keeping, loaf warding" male counterparts of "bread kneading" ladies, whose leaping examples in The Twelve Days of Christmas are symbolic of the Ten Commandments (5) |
| RUFFS | Frilled or fluted collars from which male counterparts of female reeve sandpipers derive their name (5) |
| FAIRIES | According to folklore they live at the bottom of your garden |
