| GLOXINIA | House plant related to the African violet (8) |
| BOTSWANA | Does Santa bow awkwardly to the African state? (8) |
| BLUEBELL | Woodland plant related to the Hyacinth (8) |
| SOMALIAN | Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture. |
| TREFOILS | Plants related to the shamrock and clover (8) |
| ODE | Short poem, as in the African violet variety '___ to Beauty' (3) |
| SAINTPAULIA | The African violet, a popular pot plant |
| SAINPAULIAS | Genus of the African violet (11) |
| EPISCIA | Genus of flowering plants in the African violet family (7) |
| LAGOS | The sailor follows the convict to the African port (5) |
| ELAND | Giant antelope of the Taurotragus genus, native to the African savanna (5) |
| CYMES | In botany, inflorescences in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, eg. African violet (saintpaulia) (5) |
| CYME | In botany, an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem, while subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, as in African violet (saintpaulia) (4) |
| LUPIN | Papilionaceous plant related to the pea whose name, meaning "wolfish", pertains to the belief that said "bluebonnet" ravenously depleted the soil of its nutrients (5) |
| SOMALI | In this way sent mail to the African (6) |
| PIGMY | Noel leaves employing to the African (5) |
| ZEBRA | Equine mammal native to the African grasslands (5) |
| BAOBAB | With a couple of degrees, Bo returns to the African tree (6) |
| HUTU | Bantu ethnic group native to the African Great Lakes region (4) |
| SPROUT | The Brussels ___, Brassica oleracea, is a plant related to the cabbage (6) |
