| STACK | Tall chimney; or, a stem (5) |
| BONNET | A man's soft cap, such as the Scots Glengarry or Tam o' Shanter; a woman or child's hat with ribbons tied under the chin and brim framing the face; a cowl on a chimney; or, a velvet cap within a coron |
| SPEAR | A fizgig; a gavelock for throwing or thrusting; a soldier armed with such a weapon; or, a stem of asparagus, broccoli, grass or okra (5) |
| ARROW | Item carried in a quiver; or, a stem of the sugar cane plant that bears a tassel of flowers (5) |
| SPIKE | Slang for a workhouse; its casual ward; a dosshouse or other shelter of last resort; or, a wheel-rung-like pointy thing manifesting in the form of an ear of corn, hypodermic needle, long metal nail or |
| TUBER | A stalk or a stem |
| SWEEP | Clean a chimney - or the person who does it? (5) |
| CULM | Word for anthracite, coal dust, slack or soot; or, a stalk or a stem of a plant, such as grass or sedge (4) |
| TALKS | Summit of tall chimney having opening at the back (5) |
| FLORET | Each of the petals or rays of a chrysanthemum or daisy; or, a stem forming part of a head of broccoli (6) |
| TUNNEL | A chimney or its flue; or, a burrow, gallery, mine, subway, underpass or other such subterranean passage (6) |
| ANODE | Sounds like a joint of a stem, but is in fact an electrode by which current enters a battery (5) |
| NODAL | Pertaining to the joint of a stem, or the part from where a leaf emerges (5) |
| THORN | Sharp, pointed woody extension of a stem or leaf (5) |
| TRUNK | Could be part of a body in a stem of a tree |
| GRAFT | In horticulture, a piece of plant tissue, normally a stem, that is made to unite with an established plant (5) |
| WHORL | Radial arrangement of three or more leaves, petals etc. around a stem (5) |
| NODES | Points on a stem where leaves emerge (5) |
| HASTE | Rush with a stem concealed (5) |
| PLANT | Organism with a stem and leaves (5) |
