| SMIRKALOT | Smile offensively and often |
| SMIRKERS | People who smile offensively |
| ASCLEPIUS | With daughters including Hygieia and Panacea and often depicted with a serpent-entwined staff, the Greek god of healing, a son of Apollo and Coronis (9) |
| SAMPAN | Small boats used in China and Japan rowed with a scull from the stern and often with a sail and a small cabin |
| RAINYMONTHS | Late March and April definitely, and often May |
| SHIRT | An upper body garment of cotton, etc., having a collar, sleeves and especially button down the front and often worn under a jacket |
| POPPY | Used as a symbol of remembrance and often growing in meadows with cornflowers, a wild bloom depicted in paintings by Monet and Van Gogh (5) |
| NARROWBOAT | Steered with a tiller and often fitted with compact kitchen, pot-bellied stove and sleeping quarters, a barge-like vessel designed to fit the UK's locks (10) |
| DATE | With cultivars including deglet noor and medjool and often growing in an oasis, a palm cultivated for its fruit of the same, genus Phoenix (4) |
| CRADLE | A baby's bed with enclosed sides and often a hood and rockers (6) |
| LEGGY | Word often used to describe a plant that is taller than is ideal for it, and often without leaves in the lower parts (5) |
| SIROCCO | Hot and often dusty wind that blows across the Mediterranean from N Africa to S Europe in the spring and summer; from Arabic, 'east wind' (7) |
| STORMY | (Of weather) windy and often accompanied by thunder and lightning |
| MEADOWLARK | A songbird with a brown streaky back and often yellow and black underparts (6,4) |
| FURRY | Jumping spiders are ___ and often have lots of colours and bold patterns |
| OMELETTE | Which dish consists of eggs, beaten and fried, and often served folded round other ingredients (8) |
| MANHATTAN | American whisky cocktail with vermouth and bitters, and often a cherry garnish (9) |
| NUTHATCH | Known collectively as a booby and often occupying an old nest hole of a woodpecker, a "mud dabbler" in the genus Sitta that derives its main name from hacking at acorns, beech mast, cobs and other ker |
| KNOLE | Stately home in Kent, inhabited by the Sackvilles for some 400 years and often referred to as a calendar house for its legendary approximation of 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and seven court |
| DAIQUIRI | Cocktail comprising rum, lime juice and sugar - and often preceded by strawberry! (8) |
