| PROCREATOR | Source of a scion |
| SPRIG | Word for a small slender nail or brad; a little shoot, sprout or twig; an ornament resembling a spray of leaves or flowers; or, a scion or youth (5) |
| GRAFT | Rooted to "stylus", in allusion to a pencil-like shape, word for a scion, shoot or stem, inserted in a plant or stock (5) |
| GRAFTED | A scion is ---- onto a rootstock (7) |
| OFFSHOOT | Most toffs have a good time with a scion (8) |
| STOCK | Trunk or woody stem into which a scion is inserted during grafting (5) |
| SLIP | A cutting, scion or shoot of a plant, thus a baby sole, child, chit, piglet, scrap of paper, young person or other small or immature thing (4) |
| PETER | Dutton, a royal scion nursing a split lip, is an example of being promoted above his competence (5,9) |
| PRINCIPLE | Dutton, a royal scion nursing a split lip, is an example of being promoted above his competence (5,9) |
| MASONIC | Am scion of a secret society (7) |
| SPROUT | Word for a botanical bourgeon or scion that springs up or shoots forth; or, a somewhat polarising miniature-cabbage-like vegetable (6) |
| ELAH | Scion of Esau |
| SONIC | Sort of scion dealing with sound (5) |
| DESCENDANT | Go down with a little creature's scion |
| DICKINSON | Kind scion used to be a writer (9) |
| MARROW | JOSHUA WHO PLAYS A NEWMAN SCION |
| ANIL | Scion of the Ambani clan |
| GRAFF | Ancient scion of Teutonic noble with redoubled force |
| TOYOTA | maker of trendy Scion |
| FIRSTCOUSIN | Fruit scions of a close relative (5,6) |
