| NATURE | World of plants and animals (6) |
| HISPID | Hairy, of plants and animals |
| ECOSYSTEM | Community of plants and animals and their environment (9) |
| LINNAEUS | Early classifier of plants and animals |
| ORGANIC | Agency in charge of plants and animals (7) |
| NATURALHISTORY | Note his conservative study of plants and animals (7,7) |
| BIOLOGY | Study of plants and animals (7) |
| TAXONOMY | Classification of plants and animals (8) |
| OMNIVORE | Consumer of plants and animals (8) |
| BIODIVERSE | Having many different types of plants and animals (10) |
| BIOGEOGRAPHY | Science concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals (12) |
| CAY | Low island made from skeletal remains of plants and animals from the surrounding reef |
| MOTHERNATURE | Spiritual caretaker of plants and animals whose first word is a formal term for "mama": 2 wds. |
| LUTEIN | A deep yellow pigment found in leaves of plants and egg yolk (6) |
| HERBAL | Book of plants and their uses |
| LEGUME | Type of plant and its seed pod, such as alfalfa, bean, chickpea, clover, lentil, liquorice, lupin, p |
| FOSSIL | Prehistoric souvenirs of plant and animal life, permanently set in stone |
| PENSTEMON | "Valued for their racemes of foxglove-like flowers, ____s are elegant and reliable border perennials" (RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers) |
| ACER | Genus of plants and trees of the family Sapindaceae that includes the maples and the European sycamore (4) |
| IXORA | Genus of plants and shrubs with clusters of very small, brightly-coloured, four-petal flowers (5) |
