| DENS | Private cosy rooms for study or hobbies; hideouts such as tree houses or growleries; lairs of lions, mink or foxes; or, dingles (4) |
| DEN | A cave, lair or valley; a secret hideout; a private room for study or relaxation; or, a haunt of iniquity (3) |
| GLAMPING | Form of recreational outdoor living or activity in bell tents, shepherds' huts, tree houses or yurts with some of the comforts or luxuries of home (8) |
| CRAFTS | Pastimes or hobbies such as card-making, macrame, decoupage, quilting, model-making or tapestry (6) |
| GOO | Substance such as tree sap or hot tar |
| ECOTAGE | Environmental activism such as tree spiking, also called monkeywrenching (7) |
| ROPELADDER | Set of rungs used to climb up to a tree house, or deployed from a helicopter in a rescue mission (4,6) |
| LEISURE | Time for relaxation or hobbies (7) |
| SNUGS | Cosy rooms (5) |
| ROPE | A string of pearls; or, thick cord used for boxing rings, funambulism, hammocks, tree swings or for ladders leading to boats or tree houses (4) |
| HOLDS | A word for grasps or grips; copses, hillocks or woods; orchards; refuges; or, couches, dens or lairs of otters (5) |
| VERT | According to forestry law, greenery such as trees and ferns as cover for deer(4) |
| KENNEL | Word for a dog's house or hut that derives from the Latin name for said creature; a pack of hounds; or, the den or lair of a fox (6) |
| SABBATICAL | Period of freedom granted for study or travel (10) |
| MENAGERIE | Collection of animals for study or display (9) |
| SEMESTER | A time for study or where one would seem to need a rest? (8) |
| SNUG | Cosy room in a cottage or pub; or, the joiner in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (4) |
| NESTERS | They build tree-houses from bits of trees rigged between two poles (7) |
| SUBJECTS | Areas for study or discussions (8) |
| SPECIMENS | Individual plants used for study or display (9) |
