| VEREY | Plantswoman remembered for her former garden at Barnsley House and Cottage Garden at Highgrove (5) |
| THYME | Herb which can be grown in paving cracks with other plants such as camomile or aubretia; 20 varieties of which feature in a garden at Highgrove (5) |
| COWSLIP | Common name for meadow and cottage garden flower Primula veris (7) |
| MUSCARI | Botanical name for small blue flowers growing in woodlands and cottage gardens or planted in pots indoors, commonly called grape hyacinths (7) |
| HOLLYHOCK | Tall flower ranging in colour from pastel peach to cassis; a stalwart of herbaceous borders and cottage gardens with delphiniums, lupins and foxgloves (9) |
| DEGENERES | Ellen ___, US celebrity famed for her former talk show (9) |
| FERNS | Growing with hostas in the Stumpery at Highgrove House, verdant vascular plants with fronds, popular with the Victorians (5) |
| MONET | Impressionist painter whose former garden and house in Giverny is a French national monument (5) |
| TUCCI | Italian food expert who recently dined at Highgrove with King Charles (7,5) |
| KLEIN | Plantswoman who wrote Life in a Cottage Garden to accompany her television series of the same name (5) |
| JACOB | Australia and Perth Glory midfielder at Barnsley between 2003-06 (5) |
| BURNS | Australia and Perth Glory midfielder at Barnsley between 2003-06 (5) |
| EVANS | Edith -; actress remembered for her enunciation of the words "a handbag" and her part as Lady Bracknell on stage and in film (5) |
| ESSEX | County, home of the famous garden at Elmstead Market (belonging to the late plantswoman Beth Chatto) (5) |
| GONET | Stella _, Scottish actress remembered for her House of Eliott role (5) |
| AGGIE | She accidentally bought a summerhouse at her former neighbour's auction in Coronation Street (5) |
| ETUHU | Kelvin ___ , Bury midfielder at Barnsley from 2012-14 (5) |
| LEIGH | Darjeeling-born actress married to Laurence Olivier for 20 years, remembered for her role as Scarlet |
| LENYA | Austrian singer and actress remembered for her performance in The Threepenny Opera, Lotte ... |
| SARAH | Forename of either the Duchess of York, a 1980s presenter of Blue Peter or a plantswoman who shares her surname with a corvid (5) |
