| YEW | Coniferous tree of the genus Taxus (3) |
| FIR | Coniferous tree of the genus Abies (3) |
| YOU | Sounding like a taxus, it's actually the pronoun of the second person singular! (3) |
| EWE | This sheep sounds like the common name for Taxus baccata (3) |
| LARCH | Any deciduous coniferous tree of the genus Larix, occurring in cold regions of the northern hemisphere (5) |
| WEY | This river in Surrey is a backward taxus! (3) |
| SPRUCE | Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea; its name is a contraction of a Latin-derived term for Prussia (6) |
| PICEA | Genus of coniferous trees of the family Pinaceae that comprises the spruces (5) |
| CYPRESS | Coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus (7) |
| CEDAR | Coniferous tree of the cedrus genus (5) |
| FRASER | ___ fir, coniferous tree of the south-east USA (6) |
| ARBORVITAE | Evergreen coniferous tree of the cypress family such as Thuja occidentalis (5,5) |
| AMBER | Fossilised resin of extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, commonly used as a gemstone (5) |
| REDFIR | Coniferous tree of North America (3,3) |
| REDWOOD | Giant coniferous tree of coastal regions of California (7) |
| WHITE | Evergreen coniferous tree of North America such as the Northern ___ (5,5) |
| YEWTREE | With bark originally used in the synthesis of some chemotherapy drugs, a large, woody churchyard plant with red arils, Taxus baccata (3,4) |
| RIMU | Coniferous tree of New Zealand (4) |
| WHITECEDAR | Coniferous tree of swampy regions in North America (5,5) |
| JAPANESEYEW | The evergreen tree Taxus cuspidata |
