| DEARTO | Highly esteemed by |
| OSIRIS | Very large bloom once highly esteemed by Egyptians (6) |
| SHERIDAN | Irish writer, in general, esteemed by Americans |
| REPUTED | Highly esteemed place surrounded by grass (7) |
| LADYBIRD | Insect esteemed by gardeners due to being proficient in pest-control (8) |
| LADYBIRDS | Colourful insects esteemed by gardeners as natural pest controllers (9) |
| LAPLAND | Region in the Arctic Circle esteemed by tourists for its snowy landscape, festive markets, husky rides and association with Father Christmas (7) |
| NETTLES | Esteemed by tortoiseshells, red admirals and other butterflies, a foraged plant with leaves used for tea, soup or to wrap the Cornish cheese yarg (7) |
| OSCAR | Part of Harpo's cartoon much esteemed by the film world (5) |
| POWDER | Cosmetic in a compact, applied with a puff; or, fresh lightweight snow esteemed by skiers (6) |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| SNOW | Emulated in ornamental glass globes, cold niveous precipitation forming blankets of crystals through which "milk flowers", esteemed by galanthophiles, emerge in winter (4) |
| CORGIS | Welsh "dwarf dogs" such as the Pembroke breeds or types that were esteemed by Queen Elizabeth II (6) |
| WAIN | Esteemed by Victorian artist Louis Wain and portrayed in his books, drawings, illustrations and paintings, felines also called grimalkins, kitties, moggies, tabbies, toms and torties, kept as pets or |
| FERN | Cryptogamous plant esteemed by pteridomaniacs and roosting nightjars and whose furled fronds are depicted at the heads of fiddles (4) |
| LOAM | Best soil type, thus esteemed by those with green fingers and recalled in Kipling's The Glory of the Garden (4) |
| RESPECTED | The ghost is disturbed by the editor, that highly esteemed one |
| JEWEL | Highly esteemed person |
| PRICELESS | Highly esteemed? That's hilarious! (9) |
| RATE | Be highly esteemed |
