| BONSAI | Small plant botanist cultivated, wasting time twice (6) |
| FREESIA | Plant named after a German botanist, cultivated for its white, yellow or pink fragrant flowers (7) |
| ARETHA | A hard time twice on reflection for woman (6) |
| RIVERA | Mexican mural painter, married five times (twice to Frida Kahlo), d. 1957 (6) |
| CLOVER | Small plant with three-lobed leaves cultivated for fodder (6) |
| ALPINE | A large tree, or a small plant (6) |
| WEEVIL | Family of small plant-feeding beetles (6) |
| VIOLET | Small plant with purple flowers (6) |
| MANUKA | Small plant with aromatic leaves also known as the New Zealand tea tree (6) |
| VALLEY | Small plant of Europe and North America with spikes of bell-shaped flowers (4,2,3,6) |
| MOSSES | Observer of burning bush enveloping small plants (6) |
| AGAVES | Ace donated small plants. (6) |
| EMBEDS | Space base has small plants (6) |
| SPINES | Prickly parts of small plants (6) |
| THRIPS | Small plant-pests |
| BOTTLE | Vessel used as a container for wine, perfume, a miniature ship with sails, an SOS message or as a terrarium for small plants (6) |
| TEASEL | Make fun of, initially, little plant with prickly foliage and stems in Dipsacus genus (6) |
| EQUINOX | The time, twice a year, when the sun crosses the equator (7) |
| TESTDRIVE | Revised time twice altered in road trial (4,5) |
| CHIHUAHUA | Greek character coming from hut losing time twice with a dog (9) |
