| OPHIDIA | Reptiles, concealed in topiary, go outside no longer |
| OPHIDIAN | Reptile concealed behind river retreating when spotted by Scot (8) |
| CLIPPERS | Fast sailing ships used in the tea trade; or, shears used in topiary (8) |
| HEDGEFUND | Investment in topiary perhaps and diamonds (5,4) |
| GLOBES | Shapes into which box trees (Buxus) can be clipped in topiary; or, three-dimensional models of Earth (6) |
| PLAINTIFF | One starting a suit design outside No. 4 in Savile Row (9) |
| SONNET | Lines up outside No 10 - speech just beginning (6) |
| AUDITIONS | Checks outside, no-one turned up for screen tests (9) |
| OBNOXIOUS | Dreadful private school grad with debts stuck outside No 10 |
| STANDOFF | New party employees posed outside No 10 |
| ETERNAL | Perennial outside's no cross |
| CUTTINGEDGE | Latest thing in London topiary? (7,4) |
| PATIO | Exotic topiary out of line in inner court |
| COMPOSTING | Working in the garden and writing about topiary initially (10) |
| MAZES | Achievements in large-scale topiary |
| YEW | Used for topiary, hedging, longbows and woodworking, a native evergreen tree with red arils found in beech woodlands and churchyards (3) |
| SHEARS | Bladed tools in various shapes/sizes for topiary, pruning, edging lawns, trimming hedges or pinking cloth (6) |
| BOX | Topiary shrub used to border herbs, flowers, wild strawberries, fragrant roses, espalier quince and miniature fruit trees in parterres and knot gardens (3) |
| TROWEL | Hand-held shovel often found in a potting shed with other tools including dibber, widger, trug, snips, topiary shears, secateurs... (6) |
| KNOTGARDEN | Type of parterre consisting of an intricate pattern of fragrant herbs and pruned topiary planted in "ribbons" within a square frame (4,6) |
