| CASUARINA | The ___ Tree, short story by Somerset Maugham (9) |
| RAIN | Short story by Somerset Maugham in the collection The Trembling of a Leaf (4) |
| FIRST | Tree short way before all the others (5) |
| LYCHNOSCOPE | Numbers busy cutting fruit tree short to reveal low church window |
| SPUR | Eg fruit tree's short-branched shoot (4) |
| FAREWELLS | Final messages needing money spent by Somerset city |
| GREENWOOD | Under the ___ Tree, Thomas Hardy novel (9) |
| ENCORE | 1951 film based on three short stories by Somerset Maugham (6) |
| CAKESANDALE | 1930 novel by Somerset Maugham (5,3,3) |
| ALE | 'Cakes and ---', novel by Somerset Maugham (3) |
| THERAZORSEDGE | 1944 novel by Somerset Maugham (3,6,4) |
| OFHUMANBONDAGE | Semi-autobiographical novel by Somerset Maugham |
| LIZAOFLAMBETH | 1897 novel by Somerset Maugham (4,2,7) |
| THELETTER | W Somerset Maugham short story in 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree adapted for the stage in 1927 (3,6) |
| SAD | Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, often called the night flower, is also known as the Indian mourner tree, the ___ tree or tree of ___ness (3) |
| TULIP | The ___ tree is a flowering tree in the magnolia family (5) |
| CHEDDAR | Hard smooth-textured cheese first produced in its modern form by Somerset dairyman Joseph Harding in the 1800s (7) |
| SETH | Gardener's son revealed by Somerset House (4) |
| SHROPSHIREBLUE | Cheese once made by Somerset Creameries in Nottinghamshire (10,4) |
| PHYSICIAN | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
