| POTENTILLA | Small shrub in grass, a lentil transformed |
| THYME | Small shrub in the family Labiatae with a strong mintlike odour |
| SPEAR | A leister, pike, trident or other such pointed javelin; a blade of grass; a stem of asparagus; or, a reed (5) |
| EMERALD | “A livelier ____ twinkles in the grass, / A purer sapphire melts into the sea” (Tennyson, in Maud) |
| ADDER | A snake in the grass - a calculating person? |
| DAL | Served in Hyderabad, a lentil dish |
| FESCUE | A type of grass; a stick or straw used as a teacher's pointer |
| CITRONELLA | A grass, a source of oil used in making perfume, soap etc |
| AROMAS | Freshly cut grass, a pie cooling on a window sill, etc. |
| PULSE | Leguminous seed such as a lentil, chickpea or bean, used for dhal, hummus, soup, tofu or curry, or cooked in aquafaba (5) |
| PUBLICRELATIONS | Crib a lentil soup recipe for image (6,9) |
| SPLITPEA | Dried peeled vegetable, similar to a lentil (5,3) |
| DALCLOTHES | Attire worn while eating a lentil dish? |
| GRETNAGREEN | King George sits atop a volcano with grass - a popular marriage spot once (6,5) |
| RHEA | A nandoo; the plant rami/ramie or China grass; a Saturnian moon; or, the Greek counterpart of Ops (4) |
| TURF | Rooted in "tuft of grass", a green sometimes-sodden carpet or gallops grazed or raced upon by horses (4) |
| ASSEGAI | A spear you get from elephant grass, a gainfully studied craft (7) |
| SODAPOP | Grass a dad on drink |
| SWORDPLAY | Fencing by side of grass a joke? (9) |
| OXYGEN | Bulls nibbling tips of yellow grass - a source of energy (6) |
