| KERB | Edging out of thicker bracken (4) |
| ACTUP | Muck around when a coverlet's edging out of bed (3,2) |
| NAN | Actress Martin of "Thicker Than Water" |
| RACK | Frame of bracken (4) |
| TARA | Variety of New Zealand bracken (4) |
| MOOR | Stretch of open land covered with heather and bracken (4) |
| SETT | Burrow of the badger, bawson or brock, seasonally lined with bluebells, bracken, grass, leaves, moss etc (4) |
| FERN | Girl - bracken (4) |
| ITRY | "__ to Behave Myself" (Peg Bracken, 2 wds.) |
| HATE | Peg Bracken's "I ___ to Cook Book" |
| STUDYING | Investigating way out, edging out on the way out (8) |
| HAIL | Frail Eddie Bracken, rejected by the Marine Corps, is mistaken for a brave soldier by his home town |
| ERAS | The ___ Tour (Taylor Swift series that just became the highest-grossing music tour of all time, edging out 14-Across and 23-Across) |
| THESOVIETUNION | Norway won the most gold medals at Grenoble in 1968, edging out this country, which had topped the medal list at the three previous Winter Games |
| MOORLANDS | Areas of bracken-covered tracts of land (9) |
| TREEFERN | Enter ref struggling with woody bracken (4,4) |
| HEATHY | Comprising ling, gorse and bracken, habitats forming part of the natural landscape of areas such as the Quantock Hills or the New Forest (6) |
| FERNY | Full of bracken |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Woman from Bracken has lines in Wilde play (4,9) |
| DITCHFERN | Fronded, deeply rooted plant, also called French bracken (5,4) |
