| AQUATIC | Word denoting a water plant such as duckweed, frogbit, lesser spearwort, marsh marigold, rush, willow moss or yellow flag (7) |
| RANUNCULI | Plants of a genus that includes crowfoot, spearwort and lesser celandine (9) |
| GENRE | Word denoting a painting depicting scenes from everyday life, such as de Hooch's A Boy Bringing Bread or Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (5) |
| POWDER | Word denoting a pastel blue colour; or, a cosmetic substance found in a compact with a puff (6) |
| SWEETHEART | One's beloved; a word denoting a secret agreement; a style of low-cut neckline; or, a variety of cabbage, also called hispi (10) |
| LILYPAD | A girl with a place to live bought a water plant (4,3) |
| BINARY | Word denoting a double star such as Sirius or either of the two digits 0 and 1 used in machine code (6) |
| TRANSITION | Area for changing from one discipline to another in triathlon; or, word denoting a d-block metal such as gold, platinum or silver (10) |
| HONESTY | Flower that derives its nickname "money plant" from its coin-like seed pods; or, a word denoting a method of taking payments that relies on customer's trustworthiness (7) |
| EJECTOR | One who dispossesses another of his or her land; or, a word denoting a seat enabling a pilot's swift egress from an aircraft in an emergency (7) |
| GYRO | Word denoting a circle, spiral or turn, thus a Greek-style pitta sandwich of meat "turned" on a rotisserie (4) |
| PLENARY | An archaic short form for a word denoting a person with full powers (7) |
| PLENIPO | An archaic short form for a word denoting a person with full powers (7) |
| OPEN | In chess, a word denoting a file with no pawns of either colour (4) |
| MICRO | Word denoting a very short skirt or something else on a small scale (5) |
| ETAPE | French word denoting a stage in a race |
| PLUS | Word denoting a symbol in the form of a cross that is used to indicate addition or the positive side of an electrical circuit (4) |
| CHASSEUR | Meaning "hunter", word denoting a classic French sauce of mushrooms, shallots and white wine (8) |
| RARA | Word denoting a cheerleader-style miniskirt with ruffled tiers (2,2) |
| KINGCUP | Related to buttercups and also known as a marsh marigold, a flower whose Latin name derives from the Ancient Greek meaning "goblet" (7) |
