| CULPEPER | English apothecary and botanist who wrote The English Physitian (later known as the Complete Herbal) (8) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| PRODUCEAISLE | Supermarket section containing each component of (as well as the complete answers to) the starred clues |
| HERBS | Medicinal plants listed from adder's tongue to yarrow in Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physitian (5) |
| REDOUTE | Belgian painter and botanist recognised as one of the greatest botanical illustrators of all time (7) |
| GUNNERA | Large-leaved ornamental plant named after a Norwegian bishop and botanist (7) |
| BEGONIAS | Flowering plants, named after a French colonial official and botanist, that prefer growing in shade (8) |
| EDOMITES | Descendants of the biblical Esau who lived south of the Dead Sea around the 13th century BC; later known as the Idumaeans (8) |
| ONDAATJE | Sri Lankan-born novelist who wrote The English Patient and the memoir Running in the Family (8) |
| GHOST | The Rolls-royce 40/50 car was built from 1906 to 1925, later known as the Silver ----- (5) |
| GUYGIBSON | RAF wing commander who led Operation Chastise, later known as the Dam Busters, raid in 1943 |
| GIBSON | RAF wing commander who led Operation Chastise, later known as the Dam Busters, raid in 1943 (3,6) |
| GUY | RAF wing commander who led Operation Chastise, later known as the Dam Busters, raid in 1943 (3,6) |
| ESCAPE | 1980 Rupert Holmes song that was a Number 1 hit in America, later known as "The Pina Colada Song" |
| GIMBEL | Norman, U.S. songwriter who wrote the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema (6) |
| LASALLE | Robert Cavelier, sieur de ... ..., explorer who claimed the region later known as Louisiana, US for |
| PAULANKA | Diana singer who wrote the English lyrics to My Way (4,4) |
| NORTH | Translator who wrote the English version of Plutarch's Bioi parallA"loi (Parallel Lives) (5) |
| ALICANTE | Port city of SE Spain founded by the ancient Greeks as Akra Leuke ('white peak') and later known by the Romans as Lucentum (8) |
| MOSHE | Later known as Israel's defence minister, Captain ... Dayan was injured in the eye when a bullet fir |
