| FOXGLOVES | With the power to cure but also to kill, scrophulariaceous flowers of woodlands, hedgerows, heaths and gardens whose Latin name Digitalis means "finger-hat" or "thimble" (9) |
| VIOLET | Colour of the Algerian iris; or, a pansylike flower of woodlands, hedgerows and old pastures " one of Britains first native plants to bloom after winter (6) |
| ELIXIR | Imaginary medicine with the power to cure all ills |
| HEALER | One believed to have special powers to cure people |
| AARONSROD | The scrophulariaceous plant Verbascum thapsus |
| PAINTEDCUP | Oddly pedantic about scrophulariaceous plant (7,3) |
| MACTARE | To sacrifice or reward but also to punish, kill, and slaughter |
| SAP | Plant's vital fluid, metaphorical for energy/vigour, but also to drain or bleed said vitality dry (3) |
| GRAF | Who, at the 1988 Seoul Games, not only became the first ever to achieve a Golden Slam in tennis but also to achieve it in the same year? (4) |
| CHERRY | Wild -; with heavy boughs of white blossom in the spring and edible fruits in the summer, a native tree of woodlands and old hedgerows, also called gean (6) |
| WASP | Marvel superhero with the power to shrink, with "the" |
| MIDAS | Mythological Greek king with the power to turn all he touched to gold (5) |
| UNIVERSITY | An institution of higher learning with the power to grant degrees (10) |
| LOGARITHM | Heard to record a beat with the power of a number to create another one (9) |
| ROEDEER | Graceful animal of woodlands of Europe and Asia with small antlers and a reddish-brown summer coat (3,4) |
| CUCKOOPINT | With a spadix and a spathe, a wild arum of woodland and hedgerows, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit or lords and ladies (6,4) |
| COVER | A variant of "clandestine, hidden, secret", thus a blanket, book jacket, canopy of trees, carpet of woodland flowers, layer of leaves, lid, philatelic envelope, sheet of stratus clouds, thicket for ga |
| CENSOR | Official with the power to prohibit distribution of material (6) |
| ARBITER | One with the power to settle a matter |
| ELECTOR | One with the power to cross a prince |
