| IBERIS | Plant of Eurasian genus of the same name including the garden candytuft (6) |
| PEA | A family of plants including the garden Pisum sativum; a seed of the latter, eaten as a vegetable or blown through a shooter; or, a tiny cob of coal, coffee berry, roe of salmon or stone, when akin to |
| SWIFT | With pen names including the Drapier, Isaac Bickerstaff and Simon Wagstaff Esq, a dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who chronicled the four voyages of the fictional surgeon and sea captain Lemue |
| STREET | Word for a paved way or road, such as any one of the ancient Roman examples preserving this usage in their name, including "Ermine" and "Watling" (6) |
| EILEEN | Female name (including three letters E) |
| SWISSCOTTAGE | The only London underground station name including a European nationality (5,7) |
| OXALIS | Plant of the wood sorrel genus of the same name (6) |
| SESELI | Umbelliferous garden plant of genus of the same name |
| URALIC | Superfamily of Eurasian languages comprising the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed groups (6) |
| IRVING | With pen names including Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon, the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| SKANDA | God of war in Hindu mythology, also known by names including Kartikeya and Murugan (6) |
| NASEEM | Various names including English and Asian name (6) |
| MOPOKE | With some 20 often-v Australia's smallest owl, onomatopoeic names including boobook and ruru, whose call is often wrongly attributed to the tawny frogmouth (6) |
| TURACO | Fruit-eating feathered African vertebrate with names including go-away-bird and banana eater (6) |
| FREESIA | Plant of the iris family belonging to the genus of the same name (7) |
| CORYMB | Flat-topped flower cluster whose stalks grow from different points on a stem but reach an equivalent height, as in hawthorn, candytuft etc. (6) |
| CITIES | Names, including island locations (6) |
| PORTULACA | Succulent herb of the purslane genus of the same name (9) |
| GARDENIA | White-flowered shrub or tree of the genus of the same name (8) |
| WISTERIA | Twining woody climbing-plant of genus of the same name (8) |
