| HEATHER | Plant blanketing moorlands with tiny purplish flowers or "bells" eaten by red grouse; or, a variety of blended or variegated wool yarn (7) |
| GRUMBLE | A bellyache, complaint or grouse; or, a low murmur, as in the sound of thunder or a hungry stomach (7) |
| MOORHEN | Female red grouse or waterfowl (7) |
| LILAC | Purplish flower or colour (5) |
| ELDRITCH | Spooky desire to follow novice eaten by Red Rum (8) |
| TROUT | Head of union eaten by red fish (5) |
| BLUEBERRIES | Tiny purplish fruit |
| BLACKCURRANTS | Tiny purplish fruits |
| MANTA | Word for a blanket, cloak or shawl; or, a gigantic ray named for being caught in a blanketing trap or for resembling an enormous quilt (5) |
| PEAL | A shortening of a word meaning "address, call upon" that describes the loud ringing of a bell or bells (4) |
| BRACE | A pair of grouse or pheasants; or, a hand drill used with a bit (5) |
| WILLOWHERB | Plant such as the rosebay ? or denseflower ? with pink or purplish flowers (10) |
| SNAPDRAGON | Plant with spikes of showy white, yellow, pink, red or purplish flowers, also called antirrhinum (10) |
| MANDRAKE | A plant with purplish flowers and a forked root, once thought to have magic powers (8) |
| COVEY | A brood, flock or hatch of grouse or partridge; or, a small party of people (5) |
| ACANTHUS | Ornamental plant with large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers (8) |
| ABELIA | Deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs with simple leaves and small white, pink, or purplish flowers (6) |
| GRIPE | Word for a grasp; a groan, grouse or grumble; or, gastric grief (5) |
| YUCCA | Stiff-leaved plant with spikes of white or purplish flowers (5) |
| BOGBEAN | Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves. |
