| SCABIOSA | Genus of 'pincushion flower' - so a basic sort (8) |
| PRIMITIVE | ...so prime it, Vi in a basic sort of way (9) |
| INCUS | Part of pincushion forms a bone in the ear (5) |
| FOSTERIANA | Early flowering tulip species with red, bowl-shaped flowers - so a fine art sort (10) |
| SCABIOUS | Plant in the honeysuckle family, also called pincushion flower (8) |
| HAREBELL | Pale-blue wild flower, so named because of its apparent prevalence in meadows frequented by the "boxing" leverets said to be mad in March (8) |
| HONEYSUCKLE | Fragrant woodbine Lonicera of cottage gardens, hedgerows and woodland that shares its family with the beauty bush, pincushion flower, snowberry and seablush (11) |
| PANSY | From the French word for "thought", a violet-like flower so named because of its resemblance of a human face (5) |
| TEASEL | Pincushion flower, e.g. |
| UNSOPHISTICATED | Basic sort of CPU? It astonished... (15) |
| PICCALILLI | Cull a flower, so to speak - it adds zest to the course |
| SEINE | Parisians wouldn't call it a flower, so nor will I! |
| MITOTIC | Little one goes into two, which goes into 1,100 - basic sort of division (7) |
| YESNO | Basic sort of question |
| SOLENT | Flower therefore is borrowed (6) |
| NERTERA | Southern hemisphere plant genus that includes the pincushion or coral bead (7) |
| MOSS | Glittering wood, pincushion, swan's-neck thyme, juniper haircap, feather... general word for a 400 million year-old bryophyte typically growing in ancient woodlands (4) |
| DEVILSBIT | Species of scabious with lilac-blue or violet pincushion-like flowers and roots imagined to have been begnawed by "Old Scratch", hence its name in question and Latin epithet Succisa pratensis, "cut fr |
| POINTSOUT | Shows you the pin's been removed from the pincushion (6,3) |
| MOSSES | Sphagnum and pincushion, for two |
