| USFLAG | It was planted on the moon in 1969 |
| FLAG | Something planted on the moon |
| EUCALYPTUS | Tree of the myrtle family yielding timber, oil and gum; one of the biggest of such trees in Europe can be found in Galicia, Spain, called "El Abuelo" it was planted in around 1880, is nearly 70 metres |
| LUNAR | The Eagle which landed on the moon in 1969 was Apollo 11's ... module |
| APOLLO | NASA space project of the 1960s and ' 70s that landed the first man on the moon in 1969 (6) |
| ARMSTRONG | Neil ---, US astronaut who became the first human to walk on the moon in 1969 (9) |
| ALDRIN | The second man to walk on the moon in 1969, US astronaut Buzz _ (6) |
| NEIL | ___ Armstrong, U.S. astronaut who was first to land on the moon in 1969 (4) |
| WALKED | What Neil Armstrong did on the moon in 1969 |
| EAGLE | Craft which landed on the moon in 1969 (5) |
| NASA | Agency that landed men on the moon in 1969: Abbr. |
| COLUMBIA | Command module on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 (8) |
| ELMS | Over 2,300 are planted on the National Mall |
| ENDIVE | I've planted on the far side of leftover salad green (6) |
| SPUDWOOD | Bordered by the Bridgewater Canal, ___ ___, Lymm, was planted in the 1990s on a former potato field, from which its name derives; the park is now a haven for birdlife (4,4) |
| ACCRETE | Surprisingly, the tree in the middle of Purse Caundle was planted by a top celebrity -- we have seen it grow (7) |
| CLAPHAMCOMMON | Large triangular park in south London where a tree in memory of the actor Jeremy Brett was planted in 2007 |
| BUZZALDRIN | American astronaut who became the second person to set foot on the Moon in July 1969 (4,6) |
| ODYSSEUS | Robot that landed on the moon in February 2024, marking the first moon landing by a private company |
| RYDAL | Village in the Lake District, location of William Wordsworth's family home after Dove Cottage, where Dora's Field was planted and he wrote a final version of "Daffodils" (5) |
