The Clue
Yews and ashes (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TREES
Tags
Notes
The answer TREES is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
Related Clues
Catalpa, etc.
Apples and oranges
Ashes, e.g.
Christmas and shoe
Cycad and poon
Dilo and dita
Dryads' homes
Familial diagrams
Feller's targets
Grove components
Grove constituents
Kilmer classic
Kilmer opus
Kilmer poem
Kilmer work
Larch and ash
Nursery items
Oak and elm
Orange and olive
Oranges and lemons
Panda hangouts
Pines and spruces
Plain lack
Poons, e.g.
Rembrandt's "Three ___"
Robles and wicopies
Sassafras and tupelo
Sequoias, e.g.
Shoe stiffeners
Skiing hazards
Sylvan sights
Walnuts and others
Yuletide cynosures
Arbor Day honorees
Classic Kilmer poem
Forest concealers in a saw
Golf course obstacles
Locusts and Indian beans
Much paper, originally
Some surgery patients
Last word of a Hemingway title
These may be clear-cut
These were all about Eve
They may be clear-cut
They were all about Eve
Definition
TREE as a noun:
1. a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
2. (tree, tree diagram) = a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"
3. (Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree) = English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
TREE as a verb:
1. (corner, tree) = force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
2. plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"
3. chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"
4. (tree, shoetree) = stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree