| HOLLY | Prickly shrub used as a Christmas decoration (5) |
| GOOSEBERRY | Tart fruit of a prickly shrub used for desserts and making jam, the Cape variety grows in Mallorca (10) |
| SUMAC | Shrub used as a dye and tanning agent |
| HEDGE | Shrub used as a fence |
| CEDAR | Evergreen conifer with fragrant wood that shares a botanical family with pines, larches and firs, as well as the Norway spruce, often used as a Christmas tree (5) |
| BUCKU | Shrub used as folk remedy (5) |
| BROOM | Yellow-flowered shrub used as an emblem by the Plantagenet kings (5) |
| MISTLETOE | Leaves of this evergreen shrub are used as a Christmas decoration |
| TINSEL | Glittery strips of foil on string, used as a Christmas decoration (6) |
| TAPER | Part of a Christmas decoration |
| SAGE | Woody-stemmed shrub, used as a culinary herb (4) |
| ROSEMARY | Sun-loving drought-tolerant Mediterranean shrub used as a herb (8) |
| ROSEHIP | Fruit of the thorny scented-blossomed shrub used as a source of Vitamin C |
| JAMES | Author whose spine-chillers and eerie tales, collected in such volumes as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, were originally written to be read aloud as a Christmas Eve tradition (5) |
| SOCKS | Belts as a Christmas present (5) |
| HENNA | A reddish dye, obtained from the powdered leaves of a tropical shrub, used to colour the hair and decorate the body (5) |
| ADORN | Decorate, as a Christmas tree |
| LITUP | Electrified, as a Christmas tree |
| OPENS | Unwraps as a Christmas present |
| TRIMS | Decorates, as a Christmas tree |
