| LISAS | Ling and Kudrow |
| HEATHER | Also called ling and related to blueberries and rhododendrons, the primary food of the red grouse and one of the national flowers of Scotland (7) |
| PANDAS | Ling-Ling and others |
| SOONGS | Ai-ling and Mei-ling |
| PANDAPDA | Flagrant canoodling between Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing? |
| BAIPOEHLER | "... actress Ling and comic Amy!" |
| TOMFOOLERY | Cat loves bits of ling and eel, tucking into small fish, larking about |
| ANISTON | Former costar of Cox and Kudrow |
| LUCYLIU | US actress who played the role of Ling Woo in the TV series Ally McBeal, and whose films include Charlie's Angels, Shanghai Noon, Set It Up and Payback (4,3) |
| HEATH | Moor- or maquis-like habitat characterised by flora including bracken, bilberry, gorse and carpets of purple-flowered erica and ling (5) |
| BAI | "Anna and the King" actress ___ Ling |
| SOONG | Ching-ling or Mei-ling |
| PANDA | Ling Ling, for one |
| URSID | Ling-Ling or Hsing-Hsing, taxonomically |
| POH | Master Chef Australia runner-up and culinary show host, ___ Ling Yeow (3) |
| HEATHY | Comprising ling, gorse and bracken, habitats forming part of the natural landscape of areas such as the Quantock Hills or the New Forest (6) |
| HUNAN | Province of China between the Yangtze River and the Nan Ling Mountains |
| HEATHS | Tracts of lowland carpeted with purple-flowered ling in the summer; or, satyrid butterflies in a subfamily with gatekeepers, marbled whites, ringlets, Scotch arguses, speckled woods and other browns ( |
| CALLUNA | From "to beautify, sweep clean" in reference to its twigs traditionally used in brooms and brushes, the wild flower heather or ling in the genus of the same name (7) |
| FLUS | Sicknesses in Emily St. John Mandel's "Station Eleven" and Ling Ma's "Severance" |