| BEHELD | Saw odd bits of beech and elder with no sign of hesitation (6) |
| BELONG | Fit in first bits of beech, elm and pine (6) |
| EYEWASH | Rot in heart of beech and another couple of trees |
| AVOCADO | In central Java, Jock saw odd box tree |
| GREEKLEGEND | Odysseus, say, told by Ken the Elder, with an egg whisk! (5,6) |
| SPIDERLING | Tiny young creature swims up to edgy elder with fish |
| REKINDLE | Revive collapsed elder with relatives inside (8) |
| STRING | Freelance journalist with no sign of hesitation following thread (6) |
| EXCISE | Cut out training with no sign of hesitation (6) |
| TRUDGE | With no sign of hesitation, Gertrude when upset gets to stomp (6) |
| CUSTOM | With no sign of hesitation, regular traditional practice (6) |
| CREATE | Produce animal with no sign of hesitation (6) |
| DECEIT | Trickery excited rogue with no sign of faith (6) |
| BALDER | More like one of the 20 found in top of beech tree (6) |
| HEDGES | Botanical barriers or boundaries of beech, blackthorn, box, bramble and other such bushes in the bocage (6) |
| AUSTEN | Cassandra ___, painter and elder sister of the more famous Jane (6) |
| PALACE | Mingling beech and lime, a plan for Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| BRANCH | The bough from top of beech ran to the church (6) |
| EGBERT | Old king and elder maybe back to protect our country (6) |
| GANDHI | Feroze ____'s wife and elder son both became prime ministers of India |
