| ALLEE | Passage in a formal garden |
| KNOT | A bend, bow, hitch, tie or other entwinement; a cluster of people; a maze-like pattern of flowers in a formal garden; a rosette; or, a tangle of hair (4) |
| STATUE | Figure in a formal garden? (6) |
| PARTERRE | Tree Parr planted out in a formal garden (8) |
| WEEDS | They're not welcome in a formal garden, weak, unprepossessing people! (5) |
| HAHA | Sunken wall designed to keep livestock away from a formal garden (2-2) |
| CLAUSE | A group of words with a subject and finite verb as part of a complex sentence / particular provision in a formal or legal document |
| ITALIAN | In a tail-wagging way finds formal garden has statues (7) |
| ALGA | Aquatic plant discovered in formal garden (4) |
| LOCUS | A passage in a book; or, a position of a gene on a chromosome (5) |
| ORATIONE | In a (formal) speech; ____ recta in direct speech |
| PUTTHEQUESTION | To instigate a decision in a formal meeting |
| STATUTE | An enactment of a legislative body expressed in a formal document (7) |
| REGRETS | A polite expression of sadness, esp in a formal refusal of an invitation (7) |
| SIR | Word of address to a man in a formal letter (3) |
| POINTOFORDER | A query in a formal debate as to whether correct procedure is followed (5,2,5) |
| TUILERIES | Jardin des -; formal gardens next to the Musee du Louvre in Paris, originally commissioned by Catherine de Medici in 1564 (9) |
| ITALIANGARDEN | Formal garden with statues (7,6) |
| PRIMLY | In a formal, proper manner |
| ORATE | Speak in a formal manner |
