| OCREA | Sheath round a stem |
| PILLAR | A space-occupying substance or thing, such as a present placed in a Christmas stocking, a stem of foliage/greenery incorporated into a bouquet or the tobacco in a cigar (6) |
| SPEAR | A fizgig; a gavelock for throwing or thrusting; a soldier armed with such a weapon; or, a stem of asparagus, broccoli, grass or okra (5) |
| BIER | A frame on which a corpse is placed 17A musical pipe made from a stem with a hollow |
| BIND | A tie in music; a stem of a twiner such as the hop; or, a nuisance (4) |
| AXIL | From Latin for "armpit", word for the angle between a leaf-stalk and a stem or a branch and a tree's trunk (4) |
| TRUNK | Could be part of a body in a stem of a tree |
| ANODE | Sounds like a joint of a stem, but is in fact an electrode by which current enters a battery (5) |
| STREAM | A small flower with a stem twisted round the rooftop (6) |
| SPADES | Suit of cards marked with a black symbol resembling a cordate leaf with a stem (6) |
| ARROW | Item carried in a quiver; or, a stem of the sugar cane plant that bears a tassel of flowers (5) |
| NODE | Point where a leaf attaches to a stem or an orbit crosses a plane (4) |
| CHERRIES | Tasty, tiny fruits with a stem on top and a hard seed (also called a "pit") in the center |
| TUBER | A thickened underground part of a stem, e.g. in a potato (5) |
| FLORET | Each of the petals or rays of a chrysanthemum or daisy; or, a stem forming part of a head of broccoli (6) |
| GOBLET | A drinking glass with a stem and a base (6) |
| PETIOLE | Stalk on a plant by which a leaf is attached to a stem (7) |
| CULM | Word for anthracite, coal dust, slack or soot; or, a stalk or a stem of a plant, such as grass or sedge (4) |
| PIPE | It has a stem and a bowl |
| ABSCISE | Separate, as a leaf from a stem |
