| ARDEA | It's a dear way of trapping the heron and bittern genus! |
| THEEMERALDISLE | In other words, it's a dear green place (3,7,4) |
| IBIS | Name a wading bird allied to the heron and stork (4) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| BOOM | Raft of floating logs; the cry of the bittern; a pole for an overhead camera; or, a period of prosperity (4) |
| IBISES | Which wading birds are allied to the herons and storks (6) |
| ACERB | Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste (as unripe fruit) - and four-fifths of the maple genus! (5) |
| PRIM | Prudish and straightlaced, and 4/7ths of a spring-flowering woodland plant genus! (4) |
| HEDERA | "The Holly and the (plants of this genus)"! (6) |
| BUS | Mode of transport used by the second half of the mountain ash genus! (3) |
| QUICHELORRAINE | Dish of heron and quail cooked with rice (6,8) |
| PROTORAP | Genre for Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets |
| RAN | Moved very quickly to the first three letters of the buttercup genus! (3) |
| ALL | Everyone is the first three letters of the onion genus! (3) |
| SPEED | This well is a blue-flowered weed of the veronica genus! (5) |
| FUR | Animal pelt sounding like a tree of the abies genus! (3) |
| ANANAS | Fruits of the previous clue missing their tops - or the pineapple genus! (6) |
| BRASS | Alloy of copper and zinc, found in the cabbage genus! (5) |
| AGE | Time at the start of the floss flower genus! (3) |
| BAP | Bread roll at the start of the blue false indigo genus! (3) |
