| SPRINGGREENS | Heartless leaf vegetable in the family that includes borecole, broccoli, cabbage, kale and kohlrabi (6,6) |
| SALSIFY | Seasonal in January with celeriac, horseradish, Jerusalem artichoke. kale and kohlrabi, root c the oyster plant, popular with the Victorians as winter vegetable (7) |
| GREENSTUFF | Generic word for vegetation, or vegetables including cabbage, kale and broccoli (10) |
| NASTURTIUM | With edible flowers, a climbing plant often used as a companion for cabbage, kale and cauliflower, depicted in a painting by E. Phillips Fox (10) |
| BRASSICA | This week's Miscellany subject, as with cabbages, kale and broccoli, are members of the ___ family (8) |
| CABBAGE | Cruciferous vegetable in the family that includes broccoli, cauliflower, kale and mustard (7) |
| BROCCOLI | Calabrese, tenderstem or purple-sprouting, a vegetable in the family that includes kale, cabbage and cauliflower (8) |
| PARSNIP | Creamy-coloured root vegetable in the family of umbellifers that includes carrots, celeriac, dill, fennel and lovage (7) |
| TURNIP | Plant in the Brassica genus with broccoli, cabbage, choi sum, kohlrabi and mustard; or, an informal word for a large old-fashioned watch (6) |
| ERUCA | Genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae to which the leaf vegetable rocket belongs |
| WATERCRESS | Leaf vegetable found in the wild in chalk streams in Britain (10) |
| CRUCIFER | From the Latin for "cross", a person carrying a small rood in a church procession; or, a brassica with four-petalled cross-shaped flowers, such as broccoli, cabbage, collard, kale, mustard or turnip ( |
| LETTUCE | Leaf vegetable, allied to daisies and sunflowers, such as the butterhead bibb or the crisphead iceberg (7) |
| PLANTAIN | A banana that is harvested green and used as a vegetable in the tropics (8) |
| KALE | A leafy brassica such as cavolo nero or "hungry gap"; cabbage generally; Scots word for a broth of borecole, hence for a meal or supper; or, in the US, boodle, cash or money (4) |
| PAKCHOI | Served a chop with sides of kohlrabi and cabbage (3,4) |
| SORREL | A common plant in grassland areas of Mallorca, used as a leaf vegetable and herb and also known as spinach dock (6) |
| OKRA | Vegetable in the same family as cotton and cacao |
| CHOCO | Cucumber-like fruit of the tropical vine Sechium edule, eaten as a vegetable in the West Indies and Australia (5) |
| RHUBARB | Vegetable in the Rheum genus, often served stewed with sugar as have the same length (6) |
