| SKULLCAP | Type of plant in small ditch endlessly blocking stuff up (8) |
| OBSTRUCT | Impede former pupil with vehicle endlessly blocking street (8) |
| SNOWDROP | Flower at present lying in small ditch (8) |
| LEGUME | Type of plant in the Fabaceae family such as alfalfa, any of the beans, clover, lupin, laburnum or wisteria (6) |
| PERENNIAL | Type of plant in the "Irene" plan (9) |
| STENCH | Unpleasant smell in small ditch rook must escape |
| TURGID | Plough small ditch up - it's full of water (6) |
| PADDOCKS | Use material to protect plants in small fields (8) |
| MARCIANO | I stuff up, taking on an old, old boxer (8) |
| CALATHEA | Genus of plants in Maranta family (many now in genus Goeppertia) - partly tropical at heart (8) |
| WRIGHTIA | Genus of plants in the dogbane family such as the saddle-pod (8) |
| CAMELLIA | Genus of plants in the tea family with rose-like blooms (8) |
| BRASSICA | Genus of plants in the mustard family (8) |
| TRITONIA | Genus of plants in southern Africa with typically scarlet or orange flowers (8) |
| DOGRACES | Where you'll see greyhounds hold stuff up when Desmond comes around (3,5) |
| ABUTILON | Genus of plants in mallow family, with nodding bell/bowl-shaped flowers - nil about to change (8) |
| HEDGEROW | Line of plants in border region initially brought into question |
| PUDDLE | Word for a little ditch originally, later a small muddy pool of rainwater; a wet mixture of clay and sand; or, a ripple, left by the blade of an oar (6) |
| SEDGE | Grass-like plant in small border (5) |
| FEEDMESEYMOUR | Request from the voracious plant in "Little Shop of Horrors" |
