| EYEWASH | Rot in heart of beech and another couple of trees |
| BEHELD | Saw odd bits of beech and elder with no sign of hesitation (6) |
| PELLMELL | What helter-skelter in Peru ? couple of lions reportedly got me from another couple of lions (4-4) |
| POSSESS | Have another couple of sons added to law partnership (7) |
| BALDER | More like one of the 20 found in top of beech tree (6) |
| WHITEMEAT | Wife and husband join another couple and tuck into chicken perhaps |
| BELONG | Fit in first bits of beech, elm and pine (6) |
| HEDGES | Botanical barriers or boundaries of beech, blackthorn, box, bramble and other such bushes in the bocage (6) |
| CHELMER | One of Chelmsford's rivers - part of beech, elm eroded (7) |
| PROUD | Haughty little pair before return of another couple (5) |
| ORANGECHRISTMAS | A couple of trees |
| PALACE | Mingling beech and lime, a plan for Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| BLENHEIM | Mingling beech and lime, a plan for Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| TREES | Birch, beech, and peach, for example |
| HONEYDEW | Detective writer Dame Ngaio Marsh's autobiography, Black Beech and ... |
| OBECHE | West African wood, old sort of beech |
| SURROGATEMOTHER | Woman carrying a child for another couple (9,6) |
| TWOSOME | At a dance, a few followed another couple (7) |
| INTERFERE | To get involved with another couple, I get rent free accommodation (9) |
| BRANCH | The bough from top of beech ran to the church (6) |
