| STANDARDS | These levels of quality or attainment are usually tall form of plants on single stems - including roses and types of apple tree! (9) |
| STAN | This level of quality is also a tall form of plant grown on a single stem - such as with some roses, fuchsias and apple trees! |
| DARD | This level of quality is also a tall form of plant grown on a single stem - such as with some roses, fuchsias and apple trees! (4) |
| BOTANICAL | Albino cat created new form of plants (9) |
| VASES | Vessels, usually tall and circular, used for ornaments or containers for flowers |
| CALIBRE | Level of quality or ability |
| CORDONS | Fruit trees - or 'indeterminate' tomatoes - growing on single stems (7) |
| CLUSTERS | Numbers of flowers growing together on single stems (8) |
| BOTANY | Study of plants on the bay (6) |
| ABOUND | Third of plants on verge flourish (6) |
| LOOSESTRIFE | Least constrained and abundant form of plant life |
| SPRAYS | Clouds of flying droplets of scent or seawater; or, single stems bearing leaves, flowers, berries, buds etc, or brooches resembling such (6) |
| STRAW | Stalks of cereals, thought to be like runners of "fraise" plants; a single stem of grain; a drinking tube; or, a whit (5) |
| BOYSANDMEN | Plants on a theme of these are the subject of this week's Miscellany! (4,3,3) |
| GRADE | A category of a listed building; a music exam; or, meaning "step", word originally used in English as a unit of measurement of angles, now for a particular level of quality, rank etc (5) |
| KABINETT | One of the six higher levels of quality-controlled German wine (8) |
| WHIP | Riding crop-like device; a central shaft of a windmill's sail; or, a young single-stem tree (4) |
| AVENUE | Means of access or attainment (6) |
| CRITERIA | Indices of quality or fitness for purpose (8) |
| GUARANTEE | Promise of quality or performance (9) |
