| TEATREE | Source of an essential oil with medicinal properties |
| AMPHORA | Drawing off cloudy essential oil with a Greek jar (7) |
| AROMA | Pleasant smell of an essential oil |
| OLEORESIN | Fragrant mix of essential oils with amber, balsam, conima, elemi, frankincense, mastic or myrrh "tears", which captures the aromatic essence of a plant in a concentrated form (9) |
| ATTAROF | (and 5 Across) Essential oil with unusual Far East roots (5,2,5) |
| COCA | Coloured type of sorrel, shrub with medicinal properties |
| SIMPLE | Plant with medicinal properties |
| MANDRAKE | Plant with medicinal properties crew introduced to captain |
| ALOE | A plant with medicinal properties? |
| RUE | Nice street plant with medicinal properties |
| KAVA | Polynesian crop with medicinal properties |
| ALOES | Succulents with medicinal properties |
| NEEM | South Asian tree with medicinal properties (4) |
| GINSENG | Sing about English plant with medicinal properties (7) |
| NEED | Answering machine, Edward, is a bit of an essential (4) |
| ATTAR | An essential oil or perfume made from the petals of flowers |
| SPIKENARD | Flowering plant of the Himalayas whose rhizome produces an essential oil (9) |
| CITRONELLA | Grass, aromatic plant of South Asia yielding an essential oil (10) |
| LAVENDER | Aromatic plant with fragrant pale lilac flowers, giving an essential oil (8) |
| KEYSTONE | Uncertain yes/no taken to show lack of an essential principle to build on (8) |
