| PINECONE | The strobilus of a species of conifer that can be used as a home-made weather station (8) |
| DOUGLASFIR | Tall evergreen conifer that can live for over 1,000 years (7,3) |
| CONE | A woody strobilus of a conifer; a hop flower; or, a wafer for holding a scoop of gelato or Mr Whippy (4) |
| WHITECAP | A bird with a pale crown, such as the male of a species of redstart; or, a crested wave or breaker (8) |
| COLLAPSE | Fall down very suddenly - like a house made out of a deck of cards (8) |
| CASHMERE | Soft wool from the undercoat of a species of goat, used for fine knitwear and pashminas (8) |
| HERSCHEL | George III's private astronomer who discovered Uranus with a home-made telescope and whose fellow stargazer sister, Caroline, was granted a scientific salary for her role as "ladies' comet hunter" by |
| DUCKLING | The young of a species of waterbird (8) |
| OSSETERS | Members of a species of Russian sturgeon (8) |
| WINDVANE | Weather station pointer |
| SHINGLE | Word that takes us from rooftop to seashore and from man-made to nature, when referring to a piece of wood used as a house tile or a mass of small rounded pebbles on a beach (7) |
| PINETREE | Type of conifer (4,4) |
| LEAFCYST | Disease of conifer trees causing needles to fall (4,4) |
| STIGMA | In botany, part of a carpel that receives pollen such as that of a species of crocus used as the spice saffron (6) |
| FORENSIC | Judicial distribution of conifers (8) |
| PINOT | Name, from a French word for a coniferous cone, for a variety of blanc, grigio, gris or noir wine grapes forming a cluster likened to said strobilus; or, the vin made from said raisins (5) |
| EOS | Greek word for dawn, given as the genus name of a species of lory with red-and-blue plumage, reminiscent of the colours of the sky at daybreak (3) |
| ORRIS | Root of a species of iris used in perfumery; or, a form of gold or silver lace used as an edging (5) |
| PINE | With cones and fragrant needlelike leaves, a conifer that, like its relatives the fir and the spruce, is often used as a Christmas tree (4) |
| GNOME | One of a species of legendary creatures said to live in the depths of the earth and guard buried tre |
