| GEAN | Wild cherry tree |
| FUJI | Extinct Japanese volcano - cherry tree (4) |
| ACER | Regularly saw cherry tree (4) |
| BELL | Author of the classic rural farm trilogy comprising Corduroy, Silver Ley and The Cherry Tree who also compiled some 5,000 crosswords (4) |
| MAHY | Author of books for children and young people including A Lion in the Meadow, The Witch in the Cherry Tree and The Changeover (4) |
| MYTH | Washington chopping down the cherry tree, e.g. |
| LORE | Stories like Washington chopping down the cherry tree |
| HIGH | Toronto park famous for Japanese cherry trees |
| PEPSI | Drink with a Wild Cherry variety |
| MARASCA | Wild cherry |
| KIRSCH | Wild cherry liqueur (6) |
| MAZZARD | Wild sweet-cherry tree |
| LUDENS | Cough drop brand that comes in a Wild Cherry flavor |
| BLOSSOM | Celebrated in the Japanese Hanami festival, pastel pink or white blooms of trees including wild cherry (gean), peach, plum, crab apple and hawthorn (7) |
| PRUNUSAVIUM | Latin name of the wild cherry or gean (6,5) |
| HEDGEROW | Countryside's botanical border whose seasonal fruits may include crab apples, brambles, sloes, rosehips, bullaces, elderberries, juniper and wild cherry or gean (8) |
| STIRFRIED | First wild cherry, one put in to be cooked |
| MERRY | One of the Tolkienian Hobbits of The Shire with Bilbo, Frodo, Pippin and Samwise; word meaning cheerful, festive, jolly or tipsy; or, a name for the English wild cherry (5) |
| PADUS | Prunus ___, the wild bird cherry tree - sort of a spud! (5) |
| WEEMS | Cherry-tree tale creator |
