| STOKESIA | Member of the daisy family, named after the botanist Jonathan Stokes (8) |
| PAPILLON | Toy breed of the spaniel family named after the French word for 'butterfly' (8) |
| APOLLOS | Chalky-white butterflies in the swallowtail family, named after the Greek god of light and music (7) |
| BANKSIA | Genus of evergreen Australian shrubs (family Proteaceae) named after the botanist who accompanied James Cook's circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71) (7) |
| ZOYSIA | Genus of creeping grasses named after the botanist Karl von Zois zu Laubach (6) |
| BRADEA | Plant genus named after the botanist Alexander Curt Brade (6) |
| GARDENA | Colourful member of the daisy family (7) |
| ASTER | Member of the daisy family |
| AUBRIETA | Flowering plant of the cabbage family, named after a French flower painter (8) |
| LINNAEUS | Latinised name of the botanist who formalised binomial nomenclature and was the first to remove bats from the birds and classify them under mammals (8) |
| APPLLO | Butterfly in the swallowtail family, named after one of the Olympians of the Greek Pantheon (6) |
| LOBELIA | Genus of plants of the bellflower family named after physician Matthias de l"Obel (7) |
| MONTBRETIA | Plant of the Iris family named after a French botanist (10) |
| SACHSIA | Plant in the sunflower family, named in honour of the botanist Julius von Sachs (7) |
| CRAWFORD | Jamal ___ Minnesota player who won the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award 2018 |
| IDAHOA | Plant in the mustard family, named after a US state (6) |
| GERARD | Originally a barber-surgeon, the botanist and superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and compiler of the tome Herball (6) |
| TULIP | Bulbous spring-blooming plant of the lily family named from the Turkish for 'turban' (5) |
| STEADILY | Stokes has tea and fresh idly regularly (8) |
| BALUSTER | Sledging Stokes and Buttler worked catching Australia? Only one time (8) |
