| SCAPES | Leafless flower stalks growing from the crown of the root as in narcissus / shafts of a column |
| SCAPOSE | Botany term resembling a leafless flower stalk growing from a basal rosette or leaves (7) |
| TUBER | A fleshy, underground stem (as in the potato) or root (as in the dahlia) (5) |
| TEENA | ___ Marie (singer described by The Root as among "The Blackest White Folks We Know") |
| SCAPE | The cry of a snipe when flushed; the snipe itself; an old word for a getaway, slip or transgression; a suffix indicating a scene, as in land, moon or sea; or, the leafless flower stem of the amaryllis |
| TONSIL | Either of the two small masses of lymphoid tissue on each side of the root of the tongue |
| REEF | Chain of rocks lying just under the sea surface, as in Narcissus 'Lighthouse ___' and the Oriental poppy 'Coral ___' (4) |
| BOOTLEGGER | A kind of moonshiner, so called for the practice of smuggling illicit bottles of liquor in the upper shafts of their buskins or trousers (10) |
| TONSILLITIS | Inflammation affecting either of two small masses of lymphoid tissue on each side of the root of the |
| ALIF | The first letter of the Arabic alphabet (from the same root as Greek's "alpha") |
| JEWEL | India was sometimes referred to as "the ___ in the crown" of the British Empire. (5) |
| UMBEL | A racemose inflorescence which consists of a number of short flower stalks called pedicels |
| TETE | This French word is the head, as in Narcissus '___-a-___'! (4) |
| MEDAL | Small, usually metal object, awarded for brave action, or for winning a contest, as in Narcissus 'White ' and the Scot's pine cultivar 'Gold' (5) |
| STAMENS | Small, delicate stalks growing at a flower's centre and bearing anthers in which pollen is produced (7) |
| ENTASIS | Swelling in the shaft of a column, in architecture |
| STANZA | In XML it exists at the direct child level of the root element. (6) |
| TURNIP | One of the root vegetables used in some varieties of Scotch broth (6) |
| AMIR | A mirror cut in half by actor Mr Boutrous from The Crown (4) |
| FOOLSCAPPAPER | The writer possibly wrote the book on jokers from The Crown taking exam (8,5) |
