| "Civil Disobedience" author | 37 |
| 'Walden' writer | 23 |
| He wrote of Walden Pond | 23 |
| "Walden" writer | 25 |
| "Walden" author | 25 |
| Writer who was fond of a pond | 29 |
| Walden visitor | 14 |
| Walden Pond writer | 18 |
| Walden Pond ponderer | 20 |
| Walden Pond habitue | 19 |
| Noted transcendentalist | 23 |
| Noted New Englander | 19 |
| He wrote, "Nature is full of genius" | 46 |
| "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest" penner | 75 |
| "Simplify, simplify" source | 37 |
| "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear" penner | 58 |
| ''Civil Disobedience'' author | 45 |
| 19th-century essayist wielding a vacuum? | 40 |
| Poet Henry David's provisions? | 34 |
| Cost of a cab ride to Walden Pond? | 34 |
| "The Maine Woods" | 27 |
| Walden Pond headrest? | 21 |
| White, earthy powder used for optical glass | 43 |
| Metal that's an effective radiation shield | 46 |
| Element in vacuum tube filaments | 32 |
| Rose protector | 14 |
| Irritant in one's side | 26 |
| Rosebush sticker | 16 |
| Rose hazard | 11 |
| Rose's protector | 20 |
| Irritant in one's side? | 27 |
| Spiky irritant | 14 |
| Prickly irritant | 16 |
| Poison "Every Rose Has Its ___" | 41 |
| Point on an infamous crown | 26 |
| McCullough's "The --- Birds" | 42 |
| Major irritant | 14 |
| Garden sticker | 14 |
| Garden hazard | 13 |
| Cause of side discomfort? | 25 |
| Cactus protector | 16 |
| Brier feature | 13 |
| Androcles' extraction | 25 |
| This rose with the rose | 23 |
| Sticker in the garden | 21 |
| Spiny plant part | 16 |
| Spinosity | 9 |
| Spinose structure | 17 |
| Side problem? | 13 |
| Side nuisance | 13 |
| Side issue? | 11 |
| Runic letter for "th" | 31 |
| Rosebush projection | 19 |
| Rose's threat | 17 |
| Rose's seamy side | 21 |
| Rose's seamier side | 23 |
| Rose's protector? | 21 |
| Rose's protection | 21 |
| Rose's guardian | 19 |
| Rose's drawback | 19 |
| Rose's annoying companion | 29 |
| Rose stem sticker | 17 |
| Rose protection | 15 |
| Rose pricker | 12 |
| Rose grower's problem | 25 |
| Protruding protector | 20 |
| Protective protrusion | 21 |
| Prickly subject? | 16 |
| Point on a prickly plant | 24 |
| Plant protector | 15 |
| Paw woe for Androcles' lion | 31 |
| Paw pain | 8 |
| Pain in one's side | 22 |
| Nettlesome issue | 16 |
| Metaphorical cause of discomfort | 32 |
| McCullough's "The ___ Birds" | 42 |
| McCullough's ''The ___ Birds'' | 50 |
| It lurks sub rosa | 17 |
| Irritant "in your side" | 33 |
| Feature of an acacia tree | 25 |
| Daniel's extraction | 23 |
| Considerable irritant | 21 |
| Cause of some sticker shock? | 28 |
| Cause of pain in the side? | 26 |
| Cause of a sore spot | 20 |
| Bush defense? | 13 |
| Brier point | 11 |
| Brier part | 10 |
| Briar sticker | 13 |
| Briar part | 10 |
| Bramble feature | 15 |
| Botanical barb | 14 |
| Black Crowes "___ in My Pride" | 40 |
| Androcles pulled one from a lion's foot | 43 |
| ______hill (Toronto suburb) | 27 |
| ___ between two roses | 21 |
| Builder of an immense domed nest of twigs | 41 |
| Chamberlain TV miniseries, with "The" | 47 |
| Prickly undergrowth | 19 |
| Classic name in dictionaries | 28 |