| OLEACEAE | The olive family ... in Poole, 'ace' Aeonium (8) |
| PINWHEEL | A revolving firework; a whirl-like sandwich or puff-pastry savoury; a paper windmill or whirligig; Haworth's aeonium; or, an escapement for lifting the hammer of a striking clock (8) |
| BROWNSEA | Island in Poole Bay where the first scout camp took place in 1907 (8) |
| FIREPOOL | I lived with my father in Poole before I got my own place in Taunton (8) |
| LILAC | Shrub in the olive family with fragrant blooms in May, mentioned in The Old Vicarage, Grantchester b |
| ASH | Tree in the olive family, known as the "Venus of the woods" (3) |
| OSMANTHUS | Genus of fragrant shrubs in the olive family - man shouts out (9) |
| JASMINE | Flower in the olive family |
| FORSYTHIA | Genus of plants in the olive family with yellow flowers (9) |
| DRIBBLED | What Sir Stanley Matthews did with the olive oil? (8) |
| OLEA | Type genus of the olive family, whose members include the ash, privet, jasmine etc. (4) |
| PRIVET | A shrub of the olive family used for hedges in suburban gardens (6) |
| SYRINGA | Plant genus of the olive family (Oleaceae) to which the lilacs belong (7) |
| PRIVETS | Shrubs of the olive family (7) |
| LILACS | Deciduous flowering shrubs of the olive family (6) |
| OLEACEOUS | Belonging to the olive family (9) |
| ARGANOIL | Yellow nutty-flavoured substance extracted from the olive-like fruits of a thorny evergreen tree native to Morocco (5,3) |
| POTHOLE | A hollow in the road surface caused damage to the back of our coach in a backstreet in Poole (7) |
| LOEPOOL | Last April, three people who lived in Poole drowned in the largest freshwater lake in Cornwall (3,4) |
| ISLAND | We sail south on brand new feature in Poole Harbour (8,6) |
