| TAMARACK | Tree, a hawthorn almost blocking path |
| RHONDDA | Foreign car almost blocking road by a Welsh valley (7) |
| THORN | Feature of a rose blocking path or nearby (5) |
| PIPSISSEWAS | Weed almost blocking drain possibly could be found in evergreens |
| MILLENNIAL | Factory, in blocking path, upset thirtysomething? |
| ROULETTE | Obstacle blocking path where money won and lost (8) |
| MAYTREE | Is permitted to take arbor, a hawthorn (3,4) |
| MAYHEM | A hawthorn border causes chaos. (6) |
| HEDGE | Bet either way with, say, a hawthorn one (5) |
| MAY | Might be a hawthorn |
| MAKEHAY | Potassium - what a hawthorn absorbs, or dry grass |
| OVOLO | Moulding that's very old almost blocking middle of room (5) |
| CROWN | Another name for a diadem; the upper part of a hat, cut gem or a tree; a clasping metal cap for a bottle; or, a stag's surroyals collectively (5) |
| SPINE | Heartwood of a tree; a quill of a hedgehog; a bound edge of a book; a series of vertebrae; or, courage (5) |
| STEMMA | From "garland" and "to crown, wreathe", a family tree, a pedigree or a scroll recording a genealogy; or, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its various manuscripts (6) |
| STAND | A company of plovers; a grove of trees; a platform for a brass band; or, a vessel in a boot room or hall for umbrella's, shooting sticks, crops etc (5) |
| ROTATION | A word for a spin of a planet, turn of a wheel or other axial turn; a cycle of alternating arable fields for crops or felling trees; a mathematical curl; or, any recurrent order (8) |
| PLANE | A level of existence or thought; a buttonwood tree; a carpentry tool for paring wood; or, a flat surface (5) |
| PLUCK | A short sharp pull of an eyebrow, fowl's feather or fruit from a tree; a strum or twang of a musical string; or, the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, hence courage, guts, heart or spirit (5) |
| BOX | A topiary shrub/tree; a receptacle of wood or cardboard; a bout of fisticuffs; or, a television set (3) |
