| UPROOTED | Pulled out of the ground, a tree perhaps (8) |
| PLANT | Sow seeds in the ground: - a tree |
| GEESE | A gaggle on the ground; a skein in flight (5) |
| LOW | Near the ground, a ... branch |
| DISCREET | A record of a tree perhaps made with tact (8) |
| ORNAMENT | Star on a tree, perhaps |
| EMINENCE | Word for a piece of rising ground; a protuberance; height; distinction or fame; or, a title of a cardinal (8) |
| CORNERED | Up a tree, perhaps |
| PERFORCE | Chap pulled out of the act, unavoidably |
| TEESHIRT | May be seen round the trunk of this tree, perhaps (3,5) |
| TAMPERED | Interfered with a damp tree, perhaps (8) |
| CEMETERY | Burial ground, a boneyard (8) |
| DEFOREST | Fed back to Opposition Leader breathing space to separate the wood from the trees perhaps (8) |
| PLEASANT | Nice tree, perhaps, holding sea off (8) |
| ASONEMAN | On same ground, a header from Newcastle United |
| HAMMOCKS | Hanging beds, suspended between two trees perhaps (8) |
| REFOREST | Put "backwoods" for "trees" perhaps. (8) |
| ALL | Ogden Nash lamented, "I think that I shall never see; A billboard lovely as a tree; Perhaps, unless the billboards fall; I'll never see a tree at ..." |
| MOSSY | Like the shady side of a tree, perhaps |
| PLOT | A small piece of ground; a ground plan; a secret underhand scheme, aka a conspiracy; or, in the Scots dialect, a word for "pluck feathers, strip of hair", thus figuratively "to fleece" (4) |
