| PALEA | Upper bract of grass |
| SPATHE | In botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6) |
| ARUMLILY | Ornamental plant with a brilliant yellow spike of flowers in a funnel-like bract (4,4) |
| LEAF | Foil-like gold; a hinged flap of a table; or, a bract, frond or needle (4) |
| CUPULE | From "cask, tub", a botanical word for the small woody thimble- or teabowl-like domed bract holding the smooth oval nut of an acorn (6) |
| BURR | A prickly seedcase of a hardoke or clote; or, any clinging bract or thing (4) |
| FOLIAGE | Bract |
| GLUME | Bract |
| PHYLLARY | Your associate has perhaps initially put back bract |
| LEAFLET | Bract can authorise tract (7) |
| ROSERED | Fairytale sister of Snow-White; or, similar to the crimson of Ilex aquifolium berries, pillar boxes, poinsettia bracts, pomegranate "jewels" or robins' breasts, the colour of England's national flower |
| SWAG | A bend or bow; a burglar's bulging bag of booty or boodle; a beautifying botanical band or bays of berries, blooms, bracts or buds; or, a bushman's bedroll or bundle of belongings (4) |
| CHATTERBOX | The bract demolished by cow with big mouth (10) |
| CUP | Hemispherical tea holder to which an acorn bract, brassiere balconette, butter-yellow ranunculaceous flower, egg holder, golf hole, sports trophy and many other things are likened (3) |
| LEMMA | Homograph whose disparate meanings range from a dictionary entry and theorem for a proof, to a grassy bract also called a flowering glume (5) |
| COMA | Nebulous envelope surrounding the nucleus of a comet; or, a group of bracts crowning a pineapple (4) |
| CONE | Seed-bearing structure 6 of conifers, composed of hard bracts (4) |
| PROTEA | Genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern Africa grown for their colourful bracts and dense flower heads (6) |
| SESELI | Genus of over 100 herbaceous perennial plants of the Umbelliferae family whose umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent |
| POINSETTIA | A gloriously festive euphorbiaceous Christmas plant whose showy "petals", the deep-red colour of autumn trees, schnozzles during a freeze or wax coats of Edam cheese, are in fact bracts or modified le |
