| HENBANE | How can he be Ann? Only if the plant is poisonous (7) |
| BECKHAM | Great star, so how can he be an awful hack to many? (7) |
| CORK | Stop Labour only if the leader's replaced |
| CANNON | Stoic, Ann only carries a weapon (6) |
| CENTURY | The -- plant is also called the American aloe (7) |
| FREESIA | The plant is a gift, as I arranged (7) |
| YARDARM | Tray brought round? Only if time for first of drinks ___ a Marine might look here (7) |
| ATAPUSH | Are press giving coverage to part of the army? Only if necessary |
| MASTERY | The plant is in my control (7) |
| ALLHEAL | The plant is a raging inferno, man! (7) |
| HEMLOCK | He will scoff about first love, but its growth is poisonous (7) |
| ACONITE | It is poisonous and it is put in an ice-cream container (7) |
| SCEPTIC | This doubting Thomas is poisonous, by the sound of it (7) |
| OBERMAN | Tracy-Ann ?, actress who played Chrissie Watts in BBC TV soap EastEnders |
| MARGRET | Ann- ? of 'Bye Bye Birdie' |
| RAGWORT | What yellow-flowered pasture weed is poisonous to livestock? (7) |
| CYANIDE | Bluey-green fish, which is poisonous (7) |
| HARMFUL | Henry with complete personal load is poisonous (7) |
| COWBANE | Warped bow's piercing stick, which is poisonous |
| YEWTREE | Conifer, or Taxus, that is poisonous as well as long-lived, thus symbolic of both death and immortality and traditionally planted in a graveyard (3,4) |
