| FLORIDAARROWROOT | Edible starch extracted from Zamia integrifolia, a small cycad native to North America, banned by the FDA in 1925 |
| COONTIE | Arrowroot yielded by Zamia floridana (7) |
| COOL | Slang word for good introduced in black America in the Thirties; all teenagers wanted to be it by th |
| FISHBURNE | This actor was only fourteen years old when he won a role in Apocalypse Now - he was seventeen by th |
| ZAMIA | Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia. |
| BRIGHTLY | Cleverly reconstructed by th'girl (8) |
| WAAF | Women joined the men, though not as pilots, in this branch of the British flying arm, approved by th |
| SAGO | Starch extracted from certain palm plants, used as a staple food in the tropics (4) |
| TAPIOCA | Starch extracted from cassava (7) |
| BREADTREE | African cycad yielding edible starch (5,4) |
| PECANS | Nuts from a variety of hickory native to North America - amongst many other culinary uses, they made a delicious pie |
| EUROPE | Reindeer are native to Northern ___ and Asia. Caribou are native to North America. |
| KAFFIRBREAD | The cycad Encephalartos caffer, from South Africa, has this common name (6,5) |
| BURRAWANG | Australian cycad plant named after a mountain in New South Wales (9) |
| CASSAVAS | Starch-extracted roots for tapioca |
| COYOTE | A small wolflike canine mammal, native to North America (6) |
| FROND | The leaf of a fern or cycad (5) |
| CADGE | Try to get some cycad, geranium & canna plants for nothing (5) |
| FERNPALM | Cycad perm looks like a flan gone wrong! (4,4) |
| KALMIA | Genus of evergreen shrubs native to North America and Cuba whose foliage is toxic if eaten by certai |
