| WHIN | Furze, gorse (4) |
| ULEX | Latin or genus name, roughly meaning "rosemary-like undefined shrub", for furze, gorse or whin (4) |
| WHIP | Dialect for gorse, hence found in the name of a bird that frequents said furze and is allied to the stonechat (4) |
| ZEBU | Ox found in furze bush (4) |
| BUSH | Furze |
| FURS | Furze can be said to have natural beauty |
| GOES | Fleas heading off to gorse (4) |
| WACE | Author who wrote Moorland Mousie under the pen name Golden Gorse (4) |
| OVEN | Compartment for baking and roasting such as any of the traditional gorse-fuelled cloam examples of Cornwall or Devon (4) |
| FIRS | Conifers and gorse, by the sound of it (4) |
| SERE | Found in the gorse really withered |
| DEAD | Absolutely unplayable, as a shot stuck in gorse |
| BRAMBLE | Furze |
| GORSE | Prickly shrub, furze, whin |
| IRISHGORSE | Alternative common name for the European furze (Ulex europeaus) (5,5) |
| DEFRAY | Square back garden containing borders of furze (6) |
| BRAMBLING | With a name similar to that of the blackberry bush or a variety of cooking apple, a chaffinch-like bird, known regionally as cock o' the north, furze chirper and tartan back (9) |
| HEDGEROW | Frequented by prickly furze-pigs, hotchi-witchis or urchins, a bosky boundary of bushes whose seasonal bounty includes brambles, burdock, crab-apples, elderberries, haws, hazelnuts, rosehips and sloes |
| BUSHES | Furzes |
| BUSHS | Furzes |
