| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| AWN | Plant top | |
| WEED | We take top journalist to problematic plant | |
| CROP | The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. | |
| STEM | The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top. | |
| CROWN-IMPERIAL | A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves. | |
| YEAST | ...bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentatio... | |