| LEAVES | A tree's green covering (6) |
| CANOPY | From Greek for "mosquito", word for a net over a bed originally, later for various overhead things, including an awning, parachute, parasol, the sky or a tree's crowning overstory (6) |
| EASTER | A tree's chopped for a festival (6) |
| TEASER | A tree's possibly a problem (6) |
| EATERS | A tree's rotten apples (6) |
| DEBARK | remove a tree's outer layer |
| MOSS | Green covering on a forest floor |
| MOSSY | Saskatchewan river with a name rather like that green covering on rocks |
| NARRATIVE | Green covering seen over pitch close to batter telling a story (9) |
| HUSK | External green covering of certain fruits and seeds (4) |
| PESTO | Green covering for shells |
| HUSKS | Green coverings of sweetcorn ears (5) |
| WATERMELONRINDS | Green coverings of large picnic fruits |
| AXIL | From Latin for "armpit", word for the angle between a leaf-stalk and a stem or a branch and a tree's trunk (4) |
| BARK | The covering of a tree's trunk (4) |
| ANNUALRING | Measure of a tree's age (6,4) |
| RINGBARK | Remove a strip of the bark round a tree's circumference, thus killing it (4,4) |
| AMBER | Once part of a tree's immune system, a gem occurring in colours from yellow and orange to red and brown (5) |
| TRUNK | Elephant's proboscis; a box for travel or storage; or, a tree's stem (5) |
| TWIGLOO | A temporary shelter made from a tree's branches and the like (7) |
