| ACCRETE | Surprisingly, the tree in the middle of Purse Caundle was planted by a top celebrity -- we have seen it grow (7) |
| LUCRE | Money in centre of purse swallowed by big fish |
| REPULSE | Dan and Charlie, two businessmen from Purse Caundle, are so horrible they disgust me (7) |
| STAR | "...for we have seen his ___ in the east" |
| COSMORE | This leading businessman, a head of a company, is from Corscombe, but he's got another place near Bishop's Caundle (7) |
| VIDIMUS | Conspeximus; we have seen |
| MIGHTIEST | In Monty Python And The Holy Grail, the knights who say 'Ni' demanded, "Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the ... tree in the forest with a herring!" |
| EUCALYPTUS | Tree of the myrtle family yielding timber, oil and gum; one of the biggest of such trees in Europe can be found in Galicia, Spain, called "El Abuelo" it was planted in around 1880, is nearly 70 metres |
| CLAPHAMCOMMON | Large triangular park in south London where a tree in memory of the actor Jeremy Brett was planted in 2007 |
| CEDAR | The tree in the middle of the Lebanese flag |
| SPUDWOOD | Bordered by the Bridgewater Canal, ___ ___, Lymm, was planted in the 1990s on a former potato field, from which its name derives; the park is now a haven for birdlife (4,4) |
| EGRET | I spotted a heron in a tree in the middle of Fishguard, just before it flew off (5) |
| CANOPY | Overhead umbrella-like fabric part of a parachute; or, the uppermost branches and foliage of the trees in a forest (6) |
| STREET | There's a tree in the middle of the road! (6) |
| RYDAL | Village in the Lake District, location of William Wordsworth's family home after Dove Cottage, where Dora's Field was planted and he wrote a final version of "Daffodils" (5) |
| STUMP | Final form for the tree in "The Giving Tree" |
| ENTERED | Came in and treated the tree in the end (7) |
| WYCLIFFE | This TV drama set in Cornwall was produced by a top film-maker and his wife Elsie -- we hear it took a year to put it together (8) |
| ALISTER | Secretary of State for Scotland Jack is a top celebrity (7) |
| CHESTNUT | The tree in the paddock (8) |
