| HILUM | Scar on a seed marking the point of attachment to its ovule (5) |
| HILAR | Relating to the scar on a seed |
| ARCTICCIRCLE | Line of latitude marking the point where, on the winter solstice, the sun will not rise above the horizon (6,6) |
| DISTAL | (anatomy) Situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone. |
| ACORN | It hurts to walk on a seed (5) |
| HOOKS | Word for angling barbs, bent-arm boxing blows, catchy phrases, crocheting tools, plot twists, shepherding crooks and wall pegs, all characterised by curved or snaring points of attachment/engagement ( |
| CLIFF | Scar on the landscape at Dover (5) |
| NAVEL | Scar on the stomach (for gazing at?) (5) |
| OVARY | In botany, the hollow basal region of a flower's carpel that contains the ovules (5) |
| TESTA | Outer coat on a seed |
| UNPEG | University no place for one free of attachment |
| DENTS | Scars on cars |
| SEEDY | In a disreputable way it is rather like fertilised ovules (containing embryonic plants)! (5) |
| SPEED | Rate at which ovule takes pressure (5) |
| SEEDS | Acorns, grains, kernels, nuts, pips, stones or other sown plant ovules (5) |
| CEDES | Fields plant ovules, say (5) |
| ALLONGE | In general, longer part of attachment to bill of exchange (7) |
| BICEPS | Muscle with two points of attachment, especially that on the upper arm (6) |
| MARATHON | Very long scar on a shortened strip of leather (8) |
| NONALIGNMENT | Lack of attachment to a power bloc (12) |
