| NORTHDAKOTA | State that grows the most sunflowers |
| IOWA | State that grows the most corn |
| HOLE | Something that grows the more you take from it (4) |
| OAHU | Island on which grows the rare silversword plant |
| LILIES | "Consider the ... of the field, how they grow" (The Bible) |
| OKLAHOMA | Musical based on the play 'Green Grow the Lilacs' written by Lynn Riggs (8) |
| ONEISONEANDALL | Fourth line for the first verse of Green grow the rushes oh (3,2,3,3,3,5) |
| ALONE | Fourth line for the first verse of Green grow the rushes oh (3,2,3,3,3,5) |
| LILACS | "Green Grow the ___" (play that Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted into "Oklahoma!") |
| VINE | This yard is where they grow the grapes (4) |
| FAMILYFIRM | Place where relatives grow the parental business? (6,4) |
| SPROUTED | Beginning to grow (the Christmas veggie first) (8) |
| THEASHES | Out of smokebox residue "grow the roses of success?" (2,4,3,5) |
| POORSOIL | Short of money for clay - without it you won't be able to grow the perfect grapes? (4,4) |
| VANGOGH | Netherlander who became an artist at the age of 27 and went on to create world-famous pieces including Sunflowers, Bedroom in Arles, The Red Vineyard and The Starry Night (3,4) |
| KLIMT | Austrian artist who co-founded the Vienna Secession, his paintings include Rosebushes under the Trees, The Kiss and Farm Garden with Sunflowers (5) |
| LETTUCE | Leaf vegetable, allied to daisies and sunflowers, such as the butterhead bibb or the crisphead iceberg (7) |
| ARLES | "The Painter of Sunflowers" setting |
| OILS | Liquids that might come from sunflowers or soybeans |
| SEEDS | Parts of sunflowers that birds might eat |
