| GMO | Norfolk Plant Sciences has developed a version of purple tomatoes to contain high levels of anti- oxidants and anthocyanins (1,1,1) |
| ACIDRAIN | Precipitation which contains high levels of nitric and sulphuric acid (4,4) |
| NOBEL | This prize for peace and the sciences has been awarded for a hundred years |
| HACIENDA | Place in Madrid has developed a laugh about end of CIA (8) |
| THRUST | Hope to contain high pressure (6) |
| THAMES | Controls to contain high river (6) |
| ASTHMA | Tam has developed a problem (6) |
| TOSCANINI | Conductor contains high electric current |
| REDPLANET | Nickname of Mars, so called because of the high levels of iron oxide found on its surface (3,6) |
| SINK | ____ estate, a housing area with high levels of social problems (4) |
| OILSEED | ___ rape, also called canola, has high levels of unsaturated fatty acids (7) |
| GLOBALWARMING | Gradual rise in the earth's temperature from high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (6,7) |
| REBECCA | ____ Riots, protests in rural Wales from 1839-43, against high levels of taxation (7) |
| MYSTIC | One attaining high levels of spirituality (6) |
| POPULARLY | Religious leader curtailed university rally struggling with high levels of support |
| LEMON | Fruit containing high levels of citric acid |
| HOTELECTRONS | Particles that have gained high levels of kinetic energy |
| RAINFOREST | Arboreal habitat characterised by high levels of moisture |
| AGRONOMY | Which term is often limited to applied plant sciences (8) |
| SOLANUMS | Latin "nightshades" ranging from edible aubergines, pepinos, potatoes and tomatoes to the poisonous "bittersweet" kin of deadly "beautiful lady" belladonna and toxic tobacco (8) |
