| FOSTER | Promote development of New Forest |
| NURSE | Promote development of |
| INSTIGATE | Promote development of giant site (9) |
| FOMENT | Promote development of the writer in script (6) |
| OESTROGEN | Steroid hormone which promotes development of female secondary sexual characteristics (9) |
| ESTIMATE | Appraisal of development of new houses around the centre of Lima (8) |
| VANGUARD | Group of people leading the development of new ideas (8) |
| ANTWERP | Development of new part in foreign city |
| ENTRENCH | Development of new hospital centre firmly put in place |
| EXOGEN | Old term for a woody plant whose stem grows by the development of new material on the outside (6) |
| NURSED | Took special care of, especially to promote development or well-being (6) |
| INCUBATE | Grow under conditions that promote development (8) |
| MARRYAT | Author of The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories who also developed acode of maritime flag signalling (7) |
| PURLIEU | Historically, land on the edge of a forest, eg in Dibden ____, on the edge of the New Forest |
| HAMPSHIRE | County with the floral emblem of the dog rose, home to Highclere, Mottisfont Abbey, parts of the New Forest, Test Valley, Watership Down and parts of the Wayfarer's Walk (9) |
| HEATHY | Comprising ling, gorse and bracken, habitats forming part of the natural landscape of areas such as the Quantock Hills or the New Forest (6) |
| BEAULIEU | Village in the New Forest, site of the Montagu family seat at Palace House and of the National Motor Museum (8) |
| BASHLEY | Hampshire village in the New Forest on the outskirts of New Milton with cricket and football clubs |
| BABESINTHEWOOD | Children of the New Forest, acting version? |
| FOOTSORE | Weary of walking, two ducks enter New Forest (8) |
