| HAWKWEED | Yellow dandelion like weeds that have anti-inflammatory, antiseptic qualities (8) |
| OXTONGUE | Old World plant of the daisy family with clusters of yellow dandelion-like flowers (2,6) |
| ACAI | Berry said to have anti-aging qualities |
| ALOE | Plant with antiseptic qualities |
| INVASIVE | Cook is naive about introduction of vegetables, like weed species (8) |
| GROWWILD | Spread like weeds |
| TURMERIC | Spice derived from the rhizome of a plant related to ginger, cardamom and galangal, used for anti-inflammatory qualities in chai, curry, latte and soup (8) |
| ETODOLAC | A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine). |
| STEROIDS | Certain anti-inflammatory medicines |
| PERSISTENT | Word often applied to weeds that are difficult to kill, or pesticides that remain active for a long period (10) |
| NETTLES | Common weeds that often grow near dock leaves (7) |
| COCKLES | Puckers up like weeds in the cornfield (7) |
| REEDS | "Springing up like weeds" group in "The Music Man" |
| RAGWORT | What yellow-flowered, daisy-like weed is toxic to livestock? (7) |
| CATSEAR | Dandelion-like wildflower, Hypochaeris radicata - Tom's spike of corn? (4,3) |
| CREPIS | Dandelion-like wild flower, - - - - - - rubra or pink hawksbeard (6) |
| BEARD | Hawk's - - - - -, country name for the dandelion-like crepis plant (5) |
| HAWKBIT | Dandelion-like flowers in the genus Leontodon (7) |
| PASSEDWATER | Weed that succeeded like Lawrence in conflict (6,5) |
| SUDD | Floating masses of reeds and weeds that occur on the White Nile and obstruct navigation (4) |
