| MONKSHOOD | Type of aconite |
| BULBS | Underground parts of plants such as the crocus, dahlia, winter aconite, chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow) snowdrop and narcissus (5) |
| ERANTHIS | ___ hyemalis, the winter aconite (8) |
| HELLEBORE | The winter aconite plant (9) |
| WOLFSBANE | Common name for monkshood or aconite (9) |
| TOXIC | Harmful as eg aconite (5) |
| METRICATION | Trim aconite to get a measurement system divisible by 10! (11) |
| ANEMONE | Associated with Aphrodite's myth, a flower in the family that includes the hellebore and winter aconite (7) |
| OCEAN | Aconite, it's dropped slyly in the drink (5) |
| MONK | A bullfinch; an inkblot; or, based on "alone, solitary", a coenobite or gyrovague to whose cowl or hood an aconite/wolfsbane flower is likened (4) |
| YELLOW | Colour of winter aconites, lesser celandines, meadow buttercups, marsh marigolds, tansy or coltsfoot flowers (6) |
| CANOEIST | ACONITES |
| RECREATIONS | Hobbies, past-times and, Err, aconites! (11) |
| BUTTERCUP | Yellow wild flower Ranunculus in the family that includes delphiniums, marsh marigolds, lesser celandines aconites and wood anemones (9) |
| TANKA | Genre of Japanese poem of five lines and 31 syllables; or, a type of Tibetan Buddhist painting on a |
| CONTAINER | Type of ship put on the back of a lorry |
| UMBEL | Botanical name for a type of inflorescence characteristic of plants including agapanthus, carrot, di |
| ORAL | What type of history is compiled from the reminiscences of people who lived through the event? (4) |
| TALC | Ones cut out of type of soft material |
| LCD | Modern technology makes use of this type of flat-panel screen (1,1,1) |
