| LINNAEAN | Of one Swedish botanist |
| IWANTTOBEALONE | Statement made by one Swedish misogynist (1,4,2,2,5) |
| EDBERG | Stefan -; former world No. 1 Swedish tennis player (6) |
| DAHL | Anders (or Andreas) (1751-1789), the Swedish botanist after whom one of our most popular tuberous plants is named (4) |
| BROMELIADS | Family of flowering plants mainly native to the tropical Americas, named in honour of a Swedish botanist (10) |
| LINNEAN | Of a Swedish botanist or his artificial system of classification (7) |
| CARL | First name of Swedish botanist Linnaeus (4) |
| LINNAEUS | Swedish botanist who established the binomial system of biological nomenclature (8) |
| DAHLIA | Which flower was named in honour of Swedish botanist Anders Dahl? (6) |
| CAROLUS | Latin name for the Swedish botanist who established a binomial system of biological nomenclature (7,8) |
| DAHLIAS | Flowers named for a Swedish botanist |
| ROOK | Corvus frugilegus, black-feathered bird named in 1758 by Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (4) |
| ANDERS | Swedish botanist ___ Dahl (1751-1789), after whom the 3 across was named! (6) |
| REDOUTE | Belgian painter and botanist recognised as one of the greatest botanical illustrators of all time (7) |
| GERARD | Originally a barber-surgeon, the botanist and superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and compiler of the tome Herball (6) |
| DAVIDHESSAYON | Botanist of Cypriot descent who wrote the series of gardening manuals known as the "Expert Guides" (5,8) |
| PARSLEY | Said by botanist John Gerard to be "agreeable to the stomache", one of the four herbs recalled in the English ballad Scarborough Fair (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) |
| OBIT | Passing mention of botanist missing ants (4) |
| GREGORMENDEL | Austrian botanist, father of modern genetics (6,6) |
