| MEADOWSWEET | With almond-honey-scented candyfloss-like blooms, bridewort of fen, riverbank and woodland, said to have been Elizabeth I's favourite strewing herb (11) |
| NOUGAT | Almond, honey and egg white confection traditionally prepared in a cauldron in Montelimar (6) |
| MORASS | Swampy area initially more on riverbank and south side (6) |
| RAMSONS | Wild garlic forming carpets of star-shaped white flowers and lily-of-the-valley-like leaves over riverbanks and woodlands that is often foraged in the spring (7) |
| LADYSBEDSTRAW | Sweet hay- or honey-scented yellow wild bloom of the milk-coagulating genus Galium, fabled to have padded the Virgin Mary's stable crib to soften her ease, it was also strewn as a herb to ward off fle |
| WEED | Candyfloss-like green algae that can cover a pond (7,4) |
| BLANKET | Candyfloss-like green algae that can cover a pond (7,4) |
| BEDSTRAW | Lady's -; honey-scented yellow wild flower traditionally used to stuff palliasses (8) |
| KINGFISHER | Blue and orange bird spotted hunting near riverbanks and slow-flowing water (10) |
| WATERVOLE | Endangered semi-aquatic mammal inhabiting riverbanks and feeding on grasses, meadowsweet, willowherb, elderberries and bramble fruits (5,4) |
| FLAWLESS | Characteristic of fen district shown by being under the note? (8) |
| REED | Bit of fen flora |
| MUM | Word, imitative of an inarticulate sound made with one's mouth closed, meaning silence/silent; or, a nickname of one's mater or of a "chrysanth" with often pom-pom-like blooms (3) |
| NEWFOREST | Breed of pony indigenous to an area of Hampshire/Wiltshire heath and woodland of the same name (3,6) |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| BAKEWELLTART | Baked treat with a pastry base topped with jam and filled with almond-flavoured sponge cake (8,4) |
| CAMPION | Pinky-red flower of meadows, country lanes, hedgerows and woodlands from spring to early autumn; or, the director of The Piano and Top of the Lake (7) |
| CHICORY | With cornflower-like blooms, a plant related to endive and radicchio, processed as a caffeine-free substitute for coffee (7) |
| CELANDINES | Buttercup-like blooms brightening winter's demise with illimitable golden galaxies, thus delighted in by Wordsworth and, like their etymological namesakes the swallows, regarded as "spring messengers" |
| CAMELLIA | Genus of plants in the tea family with rose-like blooms (8) |
