| SACHSIA | Plant in the sunflower family, named in honour of the botanist Julius von Sachs (7) |
| HAAST | Julius von ___, 19th century explorer and geologist (5) |
| LINNAEUS | Latinised name of the botanist who formalised binomial nomenclature and was the first to remove bats from the birds and classify them under mammals (8) |
| ARTICHOKE | Jerusalem -; tuber of a plant in the sunflower family, eaten as a vegetable in risottos, soups, gratins and warm salads (9) |
| ARNICA | Herbaceous plant in the sunflower family, used in a tincture to treat bruises (6) |
| FITCHIA | Genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family native to certain Pacific islands (7) |
| JUBILEE | The ___ Diamond, named in honour of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne (7) |
| CARDOON | Plant of the sunflower family also known as the artichoke thistle |
| BANKSIA | Genus of evergreen Australian shrubs (family Proteaceae) named after the botanist who accompanied James Cook's circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71) (7) |
| APOLLOS | Chalky-white butterflies in the swallowtail family, named after the Greek god of light and music (7) |
| LOBELIA | Genus of plants of the bellflower family named after physician Matthias de l"Obel (7) |
| CANASTA | Two-pack card game of the rummy family named from the Spanish for 'basket' (7) |
| ANGELUS | Short, devotional exercise in honour of the Incarnation, repeated three times daily (7) |
| EURYOPS | Genus of yellow-flowering plant of sunflower family (7) |
| EPITOME | Record -- one in honour of the setter, an exemplar (7) |
| CHRISTI | Roman Catholic festival in honour of the Eucharist (6,7) |
| LETTUCE | Salad vegetable that belongs to the sunflower family (7) |
| GRASSES | From which the botanist derives his information? (7) |
| SWEDISH | Like the botanist Linnaeus |
| PERCIVALMOLSON | ___ ___ Memorial Stadium (Montreal Alouettes home field named in honour of the Canadian brewing family scion who was the St. Louis 1904 Olympian killed in WWI action in France in 1917) |
