| LETTUCE | Little Gem and Romaine are varieties of this salad plant (7) |
| ENDIVE | I've Ned to thank for this salad plant |
| CRESS | Water this salad plant for another one (5) |
| ASTILBE | 'Etna' and 'Delft Lace' are varieties of this pretty plant (7) |
| PARSNIP | 'Palace', 'Gladiator' and 'Tender and True' are all varieties of this vegetable (7) |
| COBBLER | Thick-topped fruit pie of which grunt, slump and pandowdy are varieties (7) |
| SQUASH | Butternut and zucchini are varieties of this gourd vegetable |
| BROCCOLI | Sprouting and calabrese are varieties of this vegetable (8) |
| SERBOCROAT | Bosnian and Montenegrin are varieties of this language |
| COFFEEBEAN | Robusta, Arabica are varieties of this seed |
| BLUECAP | Two varieties of this bird seen at the cricket match between Oxford and Cambridge ! (4-3) |
| TOMATO | Beefsteak, cherry and plum are varieties of what salad fruit? (6) |
| RASPBERRIES | 'Cascade Delight', 'Fallgold' and 'Glen Clova' are varieties of these (11) |
| ONIONS | Bermuda and Vidalia are varieties of them |
| LAVA | What aa and pahoehoe are varieties of |
| CHINESETEAS | Green, black, white and yellow are varieties of these |
| SHEARS | Pruning and pinking are varieties of (6) |
| CUCUMBER | A gherkin is a small variety of this salad vegetable |
| BEETROOT | Busy sort beginning to consume first of this salad item (8) |
| ZIRCON | From "golden", a gem and a silicate of atomic no. 40, whose colours, ranging from clear to red, brown, blue, green, yellow and smoky, can be observed in its varieties hyacinth, jacinth, jargoon and sp |
