| WALNUT | Tree in the genus Juglans whose timber was England's most-prized variety for furniture-making from the Restoration until the introduction of mahogany in the 18th century (6) |
| MERINO | Name a prized variety of wool (6) |
| WALNUTS | Kernels of a tree in the genus Juglans, used for carrot and coffee cakes, brownies, goats cheese salads or traditionally pickled (7) |
| CONSETT | Town in County Durham noted for steel-making from 1840 to 1980 |
| CREMATION | When making from scratch, add a thousand for final disposal (9) |
| SCULPTURING | making from marble |
| LIVEOAK | Evergreen hardwood tree of North America such as the Southern - whose timber was used in shipbuildin |
| ACORN | Nut of a tree nicknamed cups and saucers whose timber was once used for Royal Navy ships (5) |
| HORNBEAMS | Trees popular for pleaching whose timber was historically used to make ancient Roman chariots (9) |
| MARRI | Tree native to Western Australia whose wood is used for furniture making (5) |
| BUTTERNUT | A variety of pumpkin/squash that shares its name with the tree Juglans cinerea; the egg-shaped fruit of the latter; said arbor's wood; or, brown dye extracted from its bark (9) |
| TAWA | Harder-wearing than rimu or matai, which native timber was commonly used for flooring in the 1950s-70s? (4) |
| ELMWOOD | Timber for furniture-making (7) |
| ROSEWOOD | Dark-coloured fragrant timber used for furniture-making (8) |
| ROCOCO | From a French word denoting shell-covered pebble work ornamenting artificial grottoes, a term for a flamboyant style of architecture, decoration and furniture-making that emerged in Paris in the 1720s |
| CANOECEDAR | Evergreen tree whose timber is used in boat-making (5,5) |
| QUANTOCKHILLS | Area in the South West which was England's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956 (8,5) |
| FLINTOFF | Andrew _, former cricketer who was England's "Man of the Series" in the 2005 Ashes (8) |
| CABG | Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from t |
| APRIL | '_ is the cruellest month', opening line from T S Eliot's poem The Waste Land (5) |
