| NIPAS | Palm trees with creeping roots |
| NIPA | Palm tree with creeping roots |
| ELAEIS | Genus of palm trees with two species (6) |
| BABASSUS | Brazilian palm trees with hard edible nuts yielding an oil used in making soap, margarine, etc (8) |
| COUCH | Grass with creeping roots often considered a weed (5) |
| TARO | Polynesian palm tree with edible roots |
| PIMPERNEL | Small plant with creeping stems, sometimes scarlet (9) |
| KNOTGRASS | Invasive plant with creeping stems (9) |
| ACAI | Palm tree with a "superfood" berry |
| TACCA | Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers. |
| STOLONS | Creeping roots or runners of plants including mint, strawberry, sweet violet, a species of buttercup clover, bugle and lamb's ears (7) |
| LANAI | Porch with palm trees |
| OASIS | Desert area with palm trees |
| INNOUT | Fast-food chain with palm trees on its packaging |
| PAIGNTON | With a pier and palm trees on its seafront, a town in Torbay, Devon (8) |
| LETO | With sacred symbols including dates, palm trees and veils, a Titaness goddess of fertility, mother to Apollo and Artemis (4) |
| BOSTONOASIS | Part of Southie with palm trees and ponds? (2 wds.) |
| AUSTIN | Car-wax base, from Brazilian palm trees |
| SWAYING | Like palm trees in a storm |
| JERICHO | Bible's City of Palm Trees |
