| BUCKWHEAT | Plant cultivated for its grain-like seeds (9) |
| ORZO | Variety of risoni-like pasta whose name, from Italian for "barley", aptly refers to its grain-like shape (4) |
| RICE | Swamp grass widely cultivated for its grain (4) |
| AMARANTH | Grain-like seeds of a plant commonly called love-lies-bleeding, typically prepared in a similar way to quinoa (8) |
| CEREAL | Name derived from the Roman goddess of agriculture for a grass such as barley, oats, rye or wheat cultivated for its grains of the same name (6) |
| GRANIFEROUS | Producing grain-like seed (Bot.) |
| RYE | Hardy cereal grass grown for its grain and straw |
| ROSARYPEA | Climbing tropical plant with toxic bead-like seeds that contain abrin (6,3) |
| MACADAMIA | Australian tree with clusters of small white flowers and edible nut-like seeds (9) |
| CHESTNUTS | Conker-like seeds of a deciduous tree, often candied as marrons glaces or roasted (9) |
| CHICKPEA | Bushy leguminous plant cultivated for its edible pea-like seeds (8) |
| INSTIGATOR | Resort to its grain for a starter |
| THISTLE | Prickly plant whose flowers, immortalised on coats of arms, coins, Scottish emblems and shortbread rounds, provide downy parachute-like seeds for goldfinches and nectar for bumblebees and painted ladi |
| WHEAT | A cereal grass or its grain from which the flour for bread is produced (5) |
| MAIZE | A tall cereal grass; its grain; or, the yellow colour of its corncobs (5) |
| OATS | Cereal crop(s) or its grains, used for making flour or porridge, or for feeding animals (4) |
| QUINOA | Grain-like crop (6) |
| GRANULE | Small grain-like particle |
| MALT | Cereal grain like barley |
| SANGRIA | Drink from a grain's like a Spanish punch (7) |
