| HARDWOOD | Oak, ash or beech, for example (8) |
| TREE | Oak, ash, elm or beech, perhaps (4) |
| NUTTREE | A hazel or beech, for example (3,4) |
| SEASHORE | Some choose ash or elm in place of shingle (8) |
| TREES | Oak, aspen and beech, for example (5) |
| AINTREE | A beech for example included in Grand National location (7) |
| WOODLAND | Considered ancient if arboraceous since 1600, a sylvan type of habitat with seasonal blankets of snowdrops, carpets of bluebells and cushions of moss under a canopy of ash, beech, chestnut, oak and/or |
| KEYS | Samaras or "helicopters" of ash or elm; or, instruments for unlocking, loosening, tuning or winding (4) |
| WOOD | Ash or balsa, for example (4) |
| TREELESS | Bereft of fir, oak, beech et al (8) |
| MARTEN | Tree-dwelling predatory mammal that might be pine or beech (6) |
| SAMARA | Word primarily for an elm seed, but also an achene, helicopter, key-fruit or whirligig of an ash or birch tree (6) |
| BLENHEIM | Mingling beech and lime, a plan for Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| CASTANEA | The chestnut genus of the beech family (8) |
| BEECHNUT | Small brown edible nut of the beech tree (8) |
| HORNBEAM | A tree like a beech with hard tough wood (8) |
| BLOND | Ash or strawberry |
| STREET | Ash or elm, say, in middle of cloistered thoroughfare |
| ROWAN | Mountain ash or Blackadder's Atkinson |
| TRAY | Ash or tea follower |
