| GRAFTED | Inserted a shoot of a plant into the stem of another plant |
| GRAFT | Join a shoot or bud of one plant to the stem of another (5) |
| SOWTHISTLE | Twit, he's lost most of another plant (3,7) |
| EATDIRT | Face-plant into the ground: 2 wds. |
| EMBOSSED | Carved head into the stem - the withered ends (8) |
| SPEAR | A shoot of asparagus or broccoli, for example (5) |
| TENDER | As the days cool, move ___ plants into the greenhouse (6) |
| SLIP | A cutting, scion or shoot of a plant, thus a baby sole, child, chit, piglet, scrap of paper, young person or other small or immature thing (4) |
| SPROUT | Young tender shoot of a plant, especially a brassica, eaten as a vegetable (6) |
| WAND | From the Old Norse word "vondr" meaning "shoot of a tree" or "twig", a rod used by a conjurer, diviner, fairy, magician etc; a conductor's baton; a marker in archery; or, a miniature brush/stick for a |
| SCION | What is a young shoot of a plant cut for grafting or rooting? (5) |
| ASPARAGUS | Tasty shoots of a plant of the lily family (9) |
| OFFSET | A counterbalance; a side shoot of a sempervivum for propagation; a mountain spur; or, a bend in a pipe (6) |
| NODE | A point on the stem of a plant from which a leaf springs |
| LAWYER | A solicitor; dialect for a bramble or the stem of a brier; or, a burbot (6) |
| TENDRIL | Coiling shoot of a plant (7) |
| BUD | Shoot of a plant (3) |
| PRICKLE | Collective noun for a group of porcupines; or, a sharp projection on the stem of some type of rose ( |
| EPICOTYL | Part of the stem of an embryo plant or seedling above the embryonic leaves (cotyledons) and below the terminal bud (8) |
| PITH | Cellular medulla in the stems of dicotyledonous plants; the similar spongy white mesocarp of an orange; a feather's interior; or, by extension, the crux or essence of something (4) |
