| NUTBROWN | Hazel-coloured (3-5) |
| DORMICE | Hazel-coloured, small hibernating rodents (7) |
| EYECOLOR | Hazel, for some |
| LINIMENT | Witch hazel is one |
| ARBOREAL | Tree-dwelling, like a hazel dormouse (8) |
| FILBERTS | Cultivated hazel trees (8) |
| CHOPDOWN | Make little of Hazel perhaps? Sounds like something the butcher has to describe something depressing |
| TREASURE | Darling Hazel possibly goes round America the wrong way, meeting resistance (8) |
| NOISETTE | Piece of rolled lamb (flavoured with hazel nuts?) (8) |
| DEADWOOD | Useless personnel late, Olive or Hazel, perhaps (4,4) |
| NUTHATCH | With grey-blue and pinky-buff plumage and feeding on acorns, hazel and beechmast, a small treecreeperlike bird of mature woodlands (8) |
| BULWARKS | Protective types of tree huggers perhaps, close to Hazel and Ash, welcome university work (8) |
| TUNISIAN | Hazel returns: is Scots boy coming from North Africa? (8) |
| CHARADES | First two bits of hazel breaking scared wild game (8) |
| BEECHNUT | Hazel perhaps by said seashore first finds fruit (8) |
| HITCHENS | Artist of the London Group noted for abstracted paintings of the Sussex landscape including Damp Autumn, Hazel Wood and Farm House (8) |
| CALABASH | College graduate sadly smuggles crown of hazel tree (8) |
| ANGLESEY | Welsh island Ynys Mon, site of "St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red cave", or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc |
| TREERING | Might this reveal Hazel or Laurel's age? (4,4) |
| PUTCHERS | Conical basketwork traps of hazel or willow, traditionally used for catching salmon (8) |
