| POPSCI | Magazine focused on STEM topics, familiarly |
| SCI | ___Show (YouTube channel that covers STEM topics) |
| THEPILL | Family planning topic, familiarly |
| CELEB | Tabloid topic, familiarly |
| INC | Magazine focused on small businesses |
| ELLEDECOR | Hearst magazine focused on interiors |
| EBONY | Magazine focused on African-American culture |
| STANCH | Laurel caught Hardy's head on stem |
| ASPHALT | Sticky material from reptile on stem (7) |
| STAUNCH | We leave broken cashew nut on stem |
| NODE | Point where leaf grows on stem of plant (4) |
| THORNS | Sharp tips on stems (6) |
| SCALES | Shell-like bumps on stems and leaves that indicate a pest infestation (6) |
| RUST | Fungal disease affecting many plants, usually seen as orange spots or rings appearing on stems and leaves (4) |
| MOSSROSE | Prickly shrub, mutation of R.x centifolia, with soft growth on stems/ petals - Morse SOS broadcast! (4,4) |
| RUSTS | Fungal diseases affecting many plants, usually manifesting in orange spots or rings on stems and leaves (5) |
| CALLUNA | From "beautify, sweep clean", the genus of heathland heathers or ling with masses of purple or rose-pink bell-shaped blooms on stems traditionally bunched as brooms (7) |
| ANTHROPOCENTRIC | Focused on man on incorrect path, disoriented (15) |
| HOTBUTTONISSUES | The fashion magazine's editor focused on fasteners in her ... |
| EYSENCK | Psychologist noted for work on intelligence and theory of personality, which focused on the temperaments of extroversion and neuroticism (7) |
