| BLADES | Leaves (of grass) |
| WHITMAN | Poet whose compendium and life-work Leaves of Grass includes I Sing the Body Electric, Song of Myself and To Think of Time (7) |
| PAGES | Leaves in "Leaves of Grass," say |
| MYSELF | "Song of ___" (opening poem in "Leaves of Grass") |
| ELECTRIC | I Sing the Body -; one of the poems from Walt Whitman's collection Leaves of Grass (8) |
| WALTWHITMAN | US poet, author of Leaves of Grass (4,7) |
| OER | "Gliding ___ All" ("Leaves of Grass" poem) |
| EPILOG | Ending part in "Leaves of Grass," initially |
| WALT | "Leaves of Grass" poet Whitman |
| COOKTHEBOOKS | Organise naked lunch with leaves of grass in the oven? Sounds like something dodgy accountant would |
| HEAD | Top of a page; upper end of a bed; source of a river; or, the leaves of a cabbage or lettuce collectively (4) |
| EMERSE | Of the leaves of an aquatic plant, rising above the surface of the water (6) |
| PAGE | One side of one of the leaves of a book or newspaper (4) |
| PANES | Sides of quadrangles; facets of cut diamonds; leaves of postage stamps in booklets; or, "lights" surrounded by window frames (5) |
| PETAL | Any of the leaves of a corolla |
| TEA | With around 3,000 varieties including Earl Grey, English breakfast and Darjeeling, a beverage derived from the leaves of a species of camellia (3) |
| SILKWORM | The larva of a particular Chinese moth, which feeds on the leaves of the mulberry tree (8) |
| BETEL | Asian climbing plant, the leaves of which are chewed by the peoples of South East Asia (5) |
| PANAMA | Hat made of the plaited leaves of the jipijapa plant (6) |
| STEVIA | Calorie- free sugar substitute obtained from the leaves of a South American plant of the family Asteraceae ( composites) ( 6) |
