| ANEMONES | Animals known as "flowers of the sea" (8) |
| CATS | Animals known as "Jellicles" in a collection of poems by T. S. Eliot (4) |
| BADGERS | Animals known as brocks (7) |
| RATHE | Early-blooming, such as flowers of Spring, to a poet |
| WIND | Anemones are known as flowers (4) |
| REINDEER | European animal known as the caribou in North America (8) |
| COCKBURN | Alison ?, 18th-century Scottish poet who authored a version of ballad The Flowers of the Forest (8) |
| RACCOONS | Animals known for getting into garbage cans |
| CANNABIS | Drug obtained from the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant (8) |
| GLADIOLI | Garden flowers of the iris family (8) |
| BRUEGHEL | Flemish artist nicknamed Velvet, noted for floral compositions such as Flowers in a Wooden Vessel and Still Life with Tulips, Chrysanthemums, Narcissi, Roses, Irises and other Flowers in a Glass Vase |
| BLOOMING | In full array as flowers |
| GROWWILD | Occur naturally, as flowers |
| ARRANGES | Puts in particular places, as flowers |
| NARCISSI | Flowers of the daffodil family |
| FREESIAS | Flowers of the iris family |
| DOGDAISY | Deity arising on day is embraced as flower (3,5) |
| BACON | Cured gammon-, ham- or pancetta-like flitch, known to the French as lard and imagined as the reddish tips of the egg yolk-yellow flowers of the birdsfoot trefoil (5) |
| LION | Animal known as "the king of the jungle" |
| CAMEL | Animal known as the 'ship of the desert' (5) |
