| CARNAUBA | The Brazilian fan palm Copernicia cerifera, the source of a wax used as a polish (8) |
| JEWELLERSROUGE | Finely powdered form of ferric oxide used as a polish for soft metals and optical glass, typically red in colour (9,5) |
| CANDLEBERRY | Another name for the wax myrtle, Myrica cerifera (11) |
| WAX | Myrica cerifera or ... myrtle (3) |
| PALMETTO | Any of several small fan palms of the south-eastern U.S. (8) |
| LAVENDER | Shrub such as Lavandula vera that is the source of a fragrant oil (8) |
| EARPLUGS | Small pieces of wax used for noise reduction (8) |
| PARAFFIN | Wax used in candles and crayons (8) |
| UPSTREAM | Towards the source of a river (8) |
| URHAMLET | Lost manuscript said to be the source of a Shakespeare classic |
| TALIPOTS | Showy fan palms |
| GAMBOGE | A gum resin used as the source of a yellow pigment and as a purgative |
| EIDER | Type of sea duck, the female of which is the source of a down used for quilts, etc (5) |
| CRAYON | Writing implement consisting of a coloured stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing (6) |
| FRUIT | From "enjoyment of harvest", a word for an acorn, berry, drupe, grain, hesperidium, nut, pome or other edible part of a plant, whose other Latin sense, "profit, value", is the source of a word meaning |
| HEAD | The source of a river; top of a page; or, a school principal (4) |
| SOPHIESCHOICE | 1982 film which won Meryl Streep an Oscar for her role as a Polish survivor of Auschwitz (7,6) |
| TRIPOLI | Weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone used in powdered form as a polish |
| EPHEDRA | Gymnosperm shrub that is the source of a white crystalline alkaloid used in the treatment of asthma and hay fever (7) |
| EAT | Polish off, as a Polish sausage |
