| NONI | Tree in the coffee family bearing "cheese fruits" or "Indian mulberries", hailed by some as a superfoods (4) |
| ROSE | Flower considered by some as a symbol of the festival of Shavuot (4) |
| GARDENIA | Flower in the coffee family |
| LYCHEES | Trees in the soapberry family bearing scented white-fleshed fruits, or "alligator strawberries", with a flavour reminiscent of roses (7) |
| COCONUTS | "I've got a loverly bunch of ...; There they are a-standing in a row; Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head; Give 'em a twist, a flick of the wrist; Is what the showman said" |
| LACE | Put the tie in the shoe and the brandy in the coffee (4) |
| BRAMBLE | Old countryside name for a prickly, rambling hedgerow shrub in the rose family bearing blackberries in late summer and autumn (7) |
| CARNE | Director noted for Children of Paradise (considered by some as one of the greatest French films of a |
| EARTHLY | The Garden of - Delights; Hieronymus Bosch's triptych interpreted by some as his depiction of the fate of humanity (7) |
| MIAMI | Resort city on Biscayne Bay in SE Florida known by some as 'the Capital of Latin America' (5) |
| VISHNU | Second god of the Hindu triad, regarded by some as the saviour (6) |
| CELANDINE | A plant of the buttercup family bearing yellow flowers in early spring (9) |
| CAFFEINE | Female, German one, in coffee house shows what's in the coffee (8) |
| OED | Ammon Shea's "Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (book hailed by the Times as "the 'Super Size Me' of lexicography") |
| FIGS | Fruits or syconiums related to mulberries, eaten dried or fresh (4) |
| COCONUT | Tropical tree in the palm family bearing large, edible drupes (7) |
| CONIFERS | With woody fruits or strobili formerly called pineapples, trees such as those in the genus Araucaria araucana, dubbed "monkey puzzles" by barrister Charles Austin during a planting ceremony in 1834 (8 |
| LYONS | Founder and managing director of SS and Jaguar cars, considered by some as one of the finest automobile stylists of all time (5) |
| ELLA | So called by some as the model lady of jazz. (4) |
| TRENDY | A tendency and why it's regarded by some as being fashionable |