| LOVAGE | Left eggs, for instance, around umbelliferous plant (6) |
| GRADE | Edgar comes round to sort or classify eggs, for instance (5) |
| OVALS | Slices of hard-boiled eggs, for instance |
| LOON | Bird left eggs with partner (4) |
| OVOID | Old poet ate duck egg, for instance (5) |
| LOVABLE | Left eggs boiled initially by the French - adorable! (7) |
| SPHEROID | Egg, for instance |
| LAID | Left eggs |
| DEDUCE | Workout for two of the clubs, for instance, around Dublin (6) |
| UNITED | Lead, for instance, around work -- running for union? (9) |
| ORACLE | Know all the old Irish, for instance, around Limerick (6) |
| STAYON | Continue to work, for instance, around tense cricket side (4,2) |
| KECKSY | An old provincial word for a hollow stalk or stem of an umbelliferous plant, such as cow-parsley or hemlock (6) |
| FENNEL | A yellow-flowered umbelliferous plant, allied to dill (6) |
| CARROT | Umbelliferous plant with a long tapering orange root (6) |
| CELERY | A marshland umbelliferous plant (Apium grave-olens) (6) |
| ELOPEMENT | Lead, for instance, around work -- running for union? (9) |
| INCHAINS | Move slowly, for instance, around home wearing manacles (2,6) |
| SESELI | Umbelliferous garden plant of genus of the same name |
| EROSING | Eating, for instance, around sculptor (7) |
