| PROPINED | Poke around tree then drank a toast (8) |
| TANKARD | Pot of tea, at first, then drank a rum (7) |
| RAISEDGLASSES | Drank a toast, being brought up on spectacles (6,7) |
| PLEDGED | Drank a toast given as security (7) |
| HENDRA | * ... then drank the contents (6) |
| PROMOTED | Poke around spot that's advertised (8) |
| PROPOSED | Suggested to poke around cause (8) |
| SYCAMORE | Tree - so creamy (anag) (8) |
| SUPPOSED | Drank a little, harbouring large thought (8) |
| STRAGGLE | Poke around |
| STASH | Store first with no tree, then with a tree (5) |
| BALDERDASH | Senseless talk about being born by tree, then died by tree (10) |
| FIRETHORN | Tree then, or kind of plant (9) |
| FIREAT | Try to shoot evergreen tree, then fix tea (4,2) |
| GIDEON | Judge takes a very long time to poke around |
| DELVE | Have a poke around in the Coromandel vehicular ferry (5) |
| BANYAN | English name, from the Gujarati for "merchant", for an Indian fig tree, so called for the tree under which Hindu traders built a pagoda (6) |
| TEAROSE | Transplanted tree, so a flower appears (3-4) |
| PLAYPOSSUM | Feign death in tree, so a spy gets confused |
| DEFORESTATION | To find a tree - so tricky when there's this? |
