| UDO | Stout Japanese herb (Aralia cordata), the blanched young shoots of which are used as a vegetable and in salads (3) |
| ASPARAGUS | Perennial plant having leaf-like stems, scale-like leaves, and small flowers, and the young shoots of which are eaten as a vegetable (9) |
| MACLEAYA | ___ cordata, the plume poppy - Alec may upset one (8) |
| SENNA | A tropical shrub the leaves and shoots of which are made into dye to color hair |
| KLIMT | - - - poppy, Macleaya cordata (5) |
| BEANSPROUTS | Young shoots of the mung bean used as a vegetable (4,7) |
| IODINE | A bluish-black element of the halogen group, the compounds of which are used in medicine, photography and dyes (6) |
| DAPHNIA | Genus of crustaceans, some species of which are used as food for aquarium fish (7) |
| NETTLE | Weedy plant, the jagged leaves of which are used as an outer wrapping on Cornish Yarg cheese (6) |
| YEAST | A group of fungi, a few species of which are used to leaven bread (5) |
| SCION | Young shoot of a tree often cut for use as a graft (5) |
| SPROUTS | Young shoots of mung/soybeans; miniature cabbages traditionally from Brussels; descendants; or, scions (7) |
| RACQUETS | Rackets, also spelled ___, is played with a ball and a strung racket in an enclosed court, all four walls of which are used in play (8) |
| JUNIPER | Evergreen coniferous shrub the berries of which are used in ginmaking, it grows well in the damp valleys of Mallorca's Sierra de Tramuntana mountain range (7) |
| QUININE | A bitter crystalline alkaloid extracted from cinchona bark, the salts of which are used in malaria therapy |
| SPEARS | Young shoots of asparagus |
| SOYA | Asian bean plant cultivated for its nutritious seeds, which are used as food and forage (4) |
| NUTMEG | Evergreen tree noted for its seeds, which are used as a spice (6) |
| ANISE | Pimpinella anisum, cultivated for its aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice (5) |
| ALLSPICE | Tropical American tree, Pimenta officinalis, whose berries have seeds which are used as a spice (8) |
