| GEUMREPTANS | Latin name for creeping avens (4,7) |
| TRELLISING | Building a frame for creeping plants |
| HENANDCHICKENS | He'd check an inn's suitable for creeping plant! (3-3-8) |
| STELLAMARIS | Latin name for both the Virgin Mary and the star Polaris as a guide for sailors |
| RHUSTYPHINA | Latin name for the stag's horn sumach (4,7) |
| GEUMURBANUM | Latin name for herb bennet (4,7) |
| ILEXCORNUTA | Latin name for the Chinese holly (4,7) |
| BETULALENTA | Latin name for the sweet birch (6,5) |
| AVENASATIVA | Latin name for the cultivated oat (5,6) |
| SCILLAVERNA | Latin name for the spring squill (6,5) |
| ULMUSPUMILA | Latin name for the Siberian elm (5,6) |
| ULMUSGLABRA | Latin name for the wych or feathered elm (5,6) |
| ACTAEARUBRA | Latin name for the red baneberry! (6,5) |
| RIVALE | Water avens is a popular name for Geum ___ (6) |
| ACANTHACEAE | Latin name for the plant family of 240 or so genera, including bear's breeches (11) |
| ADONISANNOA | Latin name for pheasant's eye, an upright annual with finely dissected leaves and deep scarlet flowers in early summer (6,5) |
| PATERNOSTER | Latin name for the Lord's Prayer, from its opening words ('Our Father') (11) |
| HERBBENNET | One of the names for wood avens, a plant of shady forested areas and hedgerows that can be a nuisance to gardeners due to being a self-seeder (4,6) |
| GEUM | Genus of perennials comprising the avens |
| ROSE | Avens genus (4) |
