WOOD PLAY
Credit: NY Times Crossword
Diane C. Baldwin

Each clue answer will contain the name of a tree. "Wood" play is fair play.

1. Quickly, in a grove
2. Self-image in a forest
3. Listen to the trees
4. Logger's "yes"
5. No one else would do, as in song
6. Arboreal concensus
7. Hard-to-find shade giver

Answers:

1. OLIVE a sudden
2. ALDER ego
3. LINDEN ear
4. OAKey dokey
5. it had to be YEW
6. POPLAR opinion
7. WILLOW the wisp