| GOBIDESERT | Offer to try and cultivate trees where they're scarce (4,6) |
| ARBORICULTURE | Recruit labour to cultivate tree-growing (13) |
| ARBORETUM | Mr Bear out to cultivate tree garden (9) |
| TENDERHEARTED | Offer to try a little boy with a kind nature (6-7) |
| MAKENOISES | Whinge loudly to try and get something done (4,6) |
| OUIJABOARD | During seances, this device is used to try and communicate with spirits (5,5) |
| EQUIVOCATE | Quote a vice in order to try and mislead (10) |
| MOTLEYCREW | Welcome to try and upset the ragbag team! (6,4) |
| TEMPLEMORE | Training hub for The Boys in Blue where they're taught how to deal with those coming close to blows perhaps (10) |
| HENPARTIES | Woman's knickers (swapping never ends!) and where they're thrown? (3,7) |
| SARDINETIN | Right to dine in satin where they're packed in tight (7,3) |
| CHAUFFEURS | They go where they're told! (10) |
| ROEDEAN | Brighton's iconic cliff-top "Eton for girls", founded by three sisters, Dorothy, Millicent and Penelope, to nurture and cultivate young ladies as if precious pearls (7) |
| ELMS | Trees where key limes regularly plucked (4) |
| REFOREST | Plant trees where ones had been removed (8) |
| HORSECHESTNUTS | Trees where husky heard old jokes (5,9) |
| COPSE | Area with trees where police heard? (5) |
| OVAL | Used to try and convert - nothing against Alba coming to logical and natural conclusions (4,4) |
| BALL | Used to try and convert - nothing against Alba coming to logical and natural conclusions (4,4) |
| INSTILL | Gradually impart by small measure and cultivate (7) |
