| TSUGA | Trees a gust wrecked (5) |
| TUGS | Gust wrecked boats (4) |
| 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) |
| BRUSH | Twiggy lopping of trees; a besom, broom or whisk; or, a white-tipped tail of a fox, named for its resemblance to an artist's traditional filbert, rigger or other paint applicator of the same name (5) |
| BOWER | Shady place under trees; a country cottage/summerhouse; or, a boudoir (5) |
| RESET | Gave trees a new position (5) |
| GREEN | Colour of baize, holly leaves, pine needles. yew trees, a mallard drake's head, Black Watch tartan with blue or Lovat tweeds/woollens (5) |
| TAGUS | Capsized: by a gust in the river (5) |
| BLAST | A gust, darn it! (5) |
| BELCH | A gust of wind? (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) |
| 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) |
| ACORN | A fruit of a tree, a thing used to make syrup (5) |
| ELDER | A tree a bit older than the rest? (5) |
| ANGEL | Item used to top a Christmas tree; a tradition originally popularised by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (5) |
| EAGLE | 2 under tree a gleaner's collected (5) |
| ALDER | Tree, a polled tree (5) |
| ASPEN | Tree a waste, cut (5) |
