| ELATA | Latin name meaning tall, as in Carex ___ (5) |
| AUREA | Latin name meaning golden, as in Carex elata ' ___ ' (5) |
| LILLIPUT | Island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, where the inhabitants are 6in tall, as in the cultivars of agapanthus and Tulipa humilis (8) |
| PRAIRIE | Carex '___ Fire' provides yearround colour and interest (7) |
| ICE | Carex '___ Dance' has green leaves with a creamy edge (3) |
| ELANA | Species name meaning 'tall' (5) |
| NIGRA | Latin name meaning black, as in Sambucus - (5) |
| ODORA | Latin name meaning scented, as in Daphne ___ (5) |
| NIGER | Latin name meaning black, as in Lathyrus ___, or black pea (5) |
| OVATA | Latin name meaning eggshaped, as in Crassula ___ (5) |
| ANNUA | Latin name meaning annual, as in Lunaria ___ (5) |
| SEDGE | Grass-like plant, genus Carex ... in naturalised geums (5) |
| PLENO | Flore ___ is a Latin name meaning 'double flowered' (5) |
| CELLO | Stringed instrument that's often as tall as its seated musician |
| DIEGO | Carex spissa is the San ___ sedge (according to this Spanish boy!) (5) |
| SEDGY | Covered w/ any grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet whose surname meaning "tall one" or "tall companion" is most seemly, for he stands as one of the giants in American literary history (10) |
| CORDATA | Latin name meaning heartshaped, as in Tilia ___ (7) |
| REPENS | Latin name meaning creeping, as in Salix ___ (6) |
| ELEGANS | Latin name meaning graceful and stylish, as in Salvia ___ (7) |
