| SIDA | Sharing a Greek root with pomegranate and water lily, a genus of malvaceous plants including the bala, country mallow and fanpetal (4) |
| ACCS | You might want to check the bal. of these (4) |
| JULY | With symbols including delphinium/larkspur, Leo, oak, ruby and water lily, a month originally called Quintilis, during which its eponymous calendar-devising Roman general, Caesar, was born (4) |
| DARKSKIN | What jamoon shares with pomegranate (4,4) |
| POMELO | Fruit that's a citrus, not a hybrid of a pomegranate and melon |
| ANIMAL | Meaning of the Greek root of "zodiac" |
| NENUPHAR | Extremely nice Greek character with exotic harp and water lily (8) |
| PEA | A family of plants including the garden Pisum sativum; a seed of the latter, eaten as a vegetable or blown through a shooter; or, a tiny cob of coal, coffee berry, roe of salmon or stone, when akin to |
| MAIDEN | Sharing its ancient root with Gaelic for "boy, servant, son", a word for a youngster of either sex originally, later a girl or unmarried woman; a clothes-horse; a racehorse without a victory; a washin |
| OKRA | Edible seed pods of the malvaceous plant Hibiscus esculentus, containing a large amount of mucilage (4) |
| SPATHE | In botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6) |
| RHODOCHITON | Genus of flowering plants, including the purple bell vine, in the diascia and nemesia family (11) |
| SEDUM | Genus of succulent plants including the stonecrops and the 'jelly bean plant' (5) |
| HIBISCUS | Malvaceous genus of plants which derives its name from the Greek for marsh mallow (8) |
| STADE | ___ was a sprint of approximately 200 yards in the Ancient Olympics. Fill in the blank with a word that shares its root with an English term that refers to a sports arena. |
| YEAR | Sharing a root with the Greek for "season", a unit of time upon which the calendar or an almanac is based (4) |
| PONY | From "young animal/chicken" and "foal" and sharing its root with "poultry", a small horse, less than 14.2 hands high; a little glass of beer or liqueur; or, anything small of its kind (4) |
| GREEN | Sharing its root with "grass", the verdant colour of growing herbage; or, a graminaceous piece of land, such as a golf course or a village centre (5) |
| BALL | A spherical mass of crystal, leather, minced beef, snow, wool, yarn etc; the delivery of the "cherry" in cricket; a plant's compact mass of roots with its surrounding soil; or, a formal assembly for d |
| STARGAZER | A fragrant Oriental lily; a fish with upward-looking oculi; an astronomer or astrologer; a daydreamer; or, a horse that carries its head towards the sky when galloping (9) |
