| FRONDS | Part of a fern, in France |
| FRONDE | Part of a fern, in France |
| SPORE | Reproductive part of a fern |
| FROND | Part of a fern |
| GEMMA | Word, from Latin's "bud, jewel", for a tiny botanical treasure and veritable unit of sparkling potential in the form of a fern, liverwort, moss or pygmy sundew's reproductive clone (5) |
| STIPE | Stalk of a fern frond (5) |
| SPORECASE | Sac on the underside of a fern's leaf |
| SORI | Botanically, spore-producing receptacles on the underside of a fern frond (4) |
| ARABLE | Surname of protagonist Fern in E. B. White's tale Charlotte's Web; or, a description of land suitable for crops (6) |
| AZOLLA | Fern in area covering the whole of Australia, from the south |
| DICKSONIA | Genus of tree ferns in the order Cyatheales named after a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist |
| MAIDENHAIR | Fern in Madeira spread across hotel (10) |
| ADDERSTONGUE | Fern in snake's mouth? (6-6) |
| UNFREE | Captive audience ultimately supporting posh Fern in broadcast (6) |
| PETPIG | Wilbur, to Fern, in "Charlotte's Web" |
| PLANT | A fern, flower, fungus etc, forming part of a flora; or, a factory/foundry (5) |
| EDEN | Regularly tend ferns in famous garden (4) |
| FENESTRAL | Lets a fern be put in it - like a window display (9) |
| ACROGEN | Non-flowering plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs from the tip of the main stem (7) |
| SORUS | Cluster of sporangia on a fern frond |
