| SYRUPS | Maple and boysenberry |
| SYCAMORE | From the Greek meaning "fig-mulberry" and with samaras or "helicopters", a tree that shares its family with ackee, horse chestnut, lychee, maple and soapberry (8) |
| TREES | Maple and pine |
| ELM | Street often near Maple and Oak |
| LEAFS | Maple and Bay |
| ACER | The maple and sycamore genus |
| LOBE | Part of maple and sycamore leaves |
| RIBES | From the Latin for "bramble-bush", a genus of rosaceous plants that includes the blackberry, boysenberry, cloudberry/bakeapple, dewberry and raspberry (5) |
| RUBUS | From the Latin for "bramble-bush", a genus of rosaceous plants that includes the blackberry, boysenberry, cloudberry/bakeapple, dewberry and raspberry (5) |
| HYBRID | boysenberry or Meyer lemon |
| ATE | Had boysenberry pie |
| JAM | Boysenberry product |
| SHRUBS | Rush off for empty bus with Maple and Ivy (6) |
| KEYS | Also known as samaras, the winged fruits of the common ash, field maple and sycamore (4) |
| PYROCHEMICAL | Type of reaction coming from cooking maple and chicory (12) |
| SYRUP | Maple and rose-hip have this in common! (5) |
| CANE | Stem of bamboo, rattan or a plant in the genus Rubus such as the raspberry or boysenberry; or, dialect for a female weasel (4) |
| BARKS | Winter cornus, some maples and cherries, and white 10 down, are grown for their decorative ___! (5) |
| SCOTTJOPLIN | African-American composer and pianist whose compositions included Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer (5,6) |
| CARLS | Maple Leaf Brewer and poet Sandburg |
