| BULRUSH | Member of the sedge family |
| PAPYRUS | Name a tall aquatic plant of the sedge family of the Nile valley (7) |
| PAPYRI | Plants of the sedge family, once a source of writing material |
| CYPERUS | Genus of the sedge galingale (7) |
| CAREX | The sedge genus! (5) |
| DREDGES | Sprinkles sugar all over the sedge, doctor! (7) |
| CAR | Vehicle shared between the sedge, bluebeard and hickory tree genera! (3) |
| SPIKERUSH | Widespread sedge of the genus Eleocharis; its stems are decorated with egg-shaped flowers (5,4) |
| EVEREST | Named sedge with green/white stripes - top of the world! (7) |
| SCIRPUS | Genus of grass-like plants, related to sedge, with the common names club-rush, wood club-rush or bulrush (7) |
| EDGES | Borders of sedge, head-to-tail (5) |
| GALINGALE | Eurasian sedge with reddish spikelets of flowers (9) |
| CULM | Hollow jointed stem of a grass or sedge (4) |
| HERONS | A Sedge of ______ |
| SNIPE | Wading bird in chill amid borders of sedge (5) |
| CHUFA | Sedge cutter's harvest usually found after removing the tips (5) |
| BAYGRASS | A sedge growing in coastal parts of SouthEast USA (8) |
| SAWGRASS | Sedge plant, active over start of October, grows wild at rear (8) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| THATCH | A roof of heather, reed, rush, sedge or straw, banned in London in 1212 following a major fire (6) |
